- 1not complete or detailed and therefore not very useful synonym rough He gave us a very sketchy account of his visit. sketchy notes
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- 2(informal) likely to be dangerous We spotted a couple of sketchy guys down the street.
NAmE//ˈskɛtʃəli//
adverb Some of the secondary characters in the novel are very sketchily drawn. NAmE//ˈskɛtʃinəs//
noun [uncountable]See sketchy in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: sketchy