Definitions for sketchy

sketchy sketch·y

Spelling: [skech-ee]
IPA: /ˈskɛtʃ i/

Sketchy is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 129 anagrams from letters in sketchy (cehksty).

Definitions for sketchy

adjective

  1. like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials. Synonyms: cursory, rough, meager, crude.
  2. imperfect, incomplete, slight, or superficial:
  3. Informal. unreliable or unsafe: disreputable or shady:

Origin of sketchy

First recorded in 1795-1805; sketch + -y1

Examples for sketchy

I can't swear to any of these things; they're sketchy impressions.

The sketchy nephew hinted that he might have fallen off a bridge.

She is too young to endure it, sobbed the by-product to her of the sketchy face.

It is a phrase that recurs at intervals in his sketchy "Confessions."

While reports are sketchy, there were likely tens of thousands of Iraqi security forces of all types in and around Mosul.

And former senior Obama adviser David Axelrod dismissed it as “sketchy.”

The image, with all of its sketchy lines and minimal color palette, had to be rendered in a matter of seconds.

While driving, listening to the first sketchy news reports, hot tears were streaming down my face.

And it is conjecture, based on the sketchy bits of evidence we possess.

He could just write a kind of sketchy hand, and didn't care for writing at all.

Word Value for sketchy
Scrable

19

Words with friends

18

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