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单词 sketchy
释义
sketchy
adjective
uk
/ˈsketʃ.i/us
/ˈsketʃ.i/

sketchyadjective(NOT DETAILED)

containingfewdetails:
简略的，粗略的
Sofarwe only have sketchyinformationabout whatcausedtheexplosion.迄今为止，我们仅仅掌握了关于爆炸起因的大概信息。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Approximate
  • -ish
  • about
  • approx.
  • approximate
  • approximately
  • around
  • in the vicinity ofidiom
  • loose
  • loosely
  • more
  • more or lessidiom
  • rough
  • round
  • rule
  • sense
  • some
  • something
  • something like 96 percent, half, etc.idiom
  • somewhere
  • sort
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sketchyadjective(NOT SAFE)

USinformal
notcompletelysafeor notcompletelyhonest:
不完全安全；不完全诚实
a sketchyguy一个不怎么诚实的人
Theylivedin a sketchyneighborhood.他们住在一个不太安全的街区。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Dishonest
  • artificiality
  • bad faith
  • be rotten to the coreidiom
  • bent
  • cowboy
  • down-and-dirty
  • dubious
  • dubiously
  • false
  • finagle
  • jackleg
  • knavery
  • louche
  • low-down
  • malfeasance
  • sugar-coated
  • under false pretencesphrase
  • underhand
  • unreliable
  • unscrupulous
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(Definition ofsketchyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

sketchy| American Dictionary

sketchy
adjective
us
/ˈsketʃ·i/
notdetailedor notcomplete:
Officialsprovidedonly sketchydetailsof thetrip.
(Definition ofsketchyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsketchy

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In short, a crude narrative was used to givesketchycontext to a number of tricks and grand illusions.
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I n contrast, existing comparisons of nonlinear theories and computations with experiments aresketchy, revealing qualitative rather than quantitative similarities.
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However, the idea of productance functions remainssketchy.
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The chapter on microplanning, while providing a lengthy overview of the tasks, issketchywhen it comes to techniques.
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In many cases psycholinguistic evidence is rathersketchy.
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Undergraduates nowadays get more teaching in family planning, but this is oftensketchyand varies very much from medical school to medical school.
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Although a laudible attempt, the vast expanse of coverage inevitably meant some significantlysketchytreatment.
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More significantly, the qualitative side of party membership has remainedsketchy.
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The main shortfall occurs when the author offers arguments againstsketchyaccounts of rule-based grammars.
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Evidence on voter turnout issketchy, and until 1990 only estimates are available to assess the level of electoral par ticipation.
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Asketchy, twenty-six - page chronology at the end of the book is not par ticularly usef ul.
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We limit ourselves here to asketchydescription of the amount of resources which are necessary for working out such a development.
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The house record on the contested election cases is somewhatsketchy.
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The writings in this collection range from fully realized works on topics of great philosophical interest, tosketchynotes on her travels.
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Summing up, the key policy paper is still the action plan from early 2004, but that paper wassketchyand not a coherent policy document.
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