as in incomplete
not complete or clear or having a lot of details
His memory of the incident was sketchy. Details are still sketchy, but there are rumors that next year's model will be completely redesigned.
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Recent Examples of sketchy
Facebook is testing similar alerts for friend requests that show red flags—things like no mutual friends, a foreign location, or generally sketchy account activity will trigger the alerts.
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Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
From checking a sketchy profile to confirming if a number belongs to a scammer, with ClarityCheck, users have the opportunity to become their own first line of defense.
—Kaitlyn Gomez, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
And yet details are sketchy on where such a force would be deployed and how all the money earmarked for it will be tracked and disbursed.
—Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026
Berto Colon made his The Night Agent debut in season 2 as Solomon Vega, a sketchy ex-Marine working for intelligence broker Jacob Monroe (Louis Herthum).
—Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Feb. 2026
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Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
From checking a sketchy profile to confirming if a number belongs to a scammer, with ClarityCheck, users have the opportunity to become their own first line of defense.
—Kaitlyn Gomez, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
And yet details are sketchy on where such a force would be deployed and how all the money earmarked for it will be tracked and disbursed.
—Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026
Berto Colon made his The Night Agent debut in season 2 as Solomon Vega, a sketchy ex-Marine working for intelligence broker Jacob Monroe (Louis Herthum).
—Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sketchy
Adjective
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The Baburnama survives in incomplete form, with parts of Babur’s early life and sections of the narrative no longer extant.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
9 Apr. 2026
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The key evidence for the embryo’s identity lies in its incomplete mandibular symphysis, or unfused lower jaw.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The roundabout near Zalaegerszeg is not the only unfinished or unhelpful project in Hungary to have received EU funds.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2026
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The person who should have the unfinished-story-line gripe is Jane, who would ideally be back with a vengeance.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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This year, the administration’s budget proposal doesn’t include a hard deadline for phasing out SLS and Orion, just the vaguer request to look for commercial alternatives.—
Sana Pashankar,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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There’s just sort of vague purple-ish themes throughout the special.—
Deputy Entertainment,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The motive for the attack remains unclear.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2026
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The cause and nature of the man's death remain unclear as the investigation began on Sunday.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The Hole was a place where a mother was blind, deaf, and utterly disconnected to her previous life, the concepts of career and friendship and exercise and positive reinforcement just hazy memories of a distant realm.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Apr. 2026
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Article continues below Star clusters and dimmer nebulas are visible threaded through the galactic plane, while the Large Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way — appears as a hazy patch of light to the bottom right of the shot.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Sketchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sketchy. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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