sketchily

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sketchily
Adverb
  • Two years later, after more legal wrangling, the Connecticut Supreme Court voted narrowly to overturn his conviction, ruling that Skakel's right to a fair trial was compromised by ineffective legal representation.
    KC Baker, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
  • However, these surveys' leads are within the margins of error and other polls show that Miyares is narrowly in the lead.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • Each said the department's practices are inadequately protecting students.
    Danielle DuClos, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Fueling your body inadequately will leave you feeling dissatisfied and undernourished.
    Jamie Johnson, Verywell Health, 10 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Sennecke has soaked up instruction and summarily discarded poor habits from the preseason.
    Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
  • By Dom Luszczyszyn, Sean Gentille and Shayna Goldman Coming into last season, the Washington Capitals had taken major steps to improve a roster that, by plenty of measures, had fluked its way into the postseason and summarily gotten stomped in the first round.
    The Athletic NHL, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Certain men who look a certain way and have a certain pedigree can behave imperfectly, to say the least, and still be confirmed into a position of power that has long-reaching consequences.
    Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In productions large or small — or, here, imperfectly in-between, though still glorious — everything is the service of the show that creates with words, music and movement a grand American tapestry — tears and all.
    Frank Rizzo, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Obstructive sleep apnea is a disorder in which people briefly stop breathing or breath very shallowly during sleep, multiple times per hour.
    Becky Upham, EverydayHealth.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Yet another approach is to merely and shallowly describe the persona based on your overall semblance of the person.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Even as large language models such as ChatGPT superficially replicate ordinary speech, researchers want to know if there are specific aspects of human language that simply have no parallels in the communication systems of other animals or artificially intelligent devices.
    Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The Tyndall effect, a bluish discoloration from filler that has been injected too superficially, is another possible side effect and is most commonly seen in the thin-skinned undereye area.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Sketchily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sketchily. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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