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sketchy, a.|ˈskɛtʃɪ|
[f. sketch n. + -y.]
1. Giving only a slight or rough outline of the main features, facts, or circumstances without going into details:
a. Of writings or authors.
1805Edin. Rev. VII. 136 These two extremes, of meagre copying, and of imitation so free and sketchy as to leave no likeness, are to be found in our two translations of Homer. 1828J. Sterling Ess. (1848) II. 50 Sketches of society,—very sketchy indeed,—..make up the miscellany. 1854S. Lover Handy Andy (ed. 4) Pref., A story thus originated could not be other than sketchy and desultory. 1884Law Times LXXVI. 358/1 On particulars of breaches and of objections he is very sketchy.
b. Of style, etc. (in writing or painting).
1811Self Instructor 527 This style of painting is intended to be light and sketchy. 1852Motley Corr. (1889) I. v. 137 The thin, sketchy, and slight manner in which the whole was executed. 1871Athenæum 3 June 686 In the second volume..The style is not so sketchy, but we have rather a fragment of a picture than the picture itself.
2. Of pictures, etc.: Of the nature of, or resembling, a sketch; consisting or composed of outline without much detail.
1859Gullick & Timbs Painting 288 A sketchy generalized resemblance of an object. 1864I. Taylor in Good Words 231 These sketchy portraits, inserted..in the very midst of the reported speeches. 188419th Cent. Jan. 31 The well⁓known column..around which Landseer's very sketchy lions watch.
fig.1817Keats Lett. Wks. 1889 III. 96 It [Wordsworth's ‘Gipsy’] is a kind of sketchy intellectual landscape. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey v. xv, A party of this kind should be more sketchy in its style; the outline more free, and less detail.
3. colloq. Of a light, flimsy, unsubstantial or imperfect nature. Also fig.
1878H. S. Wilson Alpine Ascents i. 16 A scrappy sort of sketchy fragmentary breakfast. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 563 A house with no doors, and only very sketchy wooden window-shutters. 1943E. B. White Let. 13 Mar. (1976) 238, I am hoping that my health (which has been rather sketchy lately) will improve. 1977Horse & Hound 14 Jan. 7/3 He survived some decidedly sketchy jumps in the early stages. |