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- adjective
comparative form ofsketchy : moresketchy
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Examples
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Sharon retold the story as briefly as she could and made an even sketchier explanation of how and why she had volunteered to look after Ridge in his home.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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Experts say we have an itchy security trigger because the species had to be hyper-alert to survive back in our sketchier days on the African savanna.
Joe Robinson: Risk vs. Fear: Safe Is Sorry Joe Robinson 2010
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It gets sketchier the earlier we go but I can still pretty much tell a Roman and Greek era film and know what should be right.
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The last three are a bit sketchier in quality, but there's a few good episodes.
drabble: Normal Procedures tragic_elegance 2010
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Law 2: The crappier the Web site, the sleazier (and sketchier) the ads.
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There is yet a core of common decency built into our lifeways and even some of our institutions that has thwarted, so far, the sketchier aspects of this government's agenda.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Sharon retold the story as briefly as she could and made an even sketchier explanation of how and why she had volunteered to look after Ridge in his home.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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FinReg won't do enough to fight payday loans, writes Timothy Noah: One of the sketchier provisions in Dodd-Frank affirmatively prohibits Warren's new agency from setting a maximum interest rate on payday loans ...
Wonkbook: Our $900 billion problem; support builds for Fed action; Jill Biden's community college summit Ezra Klein 2010
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I've had some luck getting laid with AdultFriendFinder (it sounds so much sketchier than it actually is, I promise), but if that's not what you're looking for, then stay away.
Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing 2009
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This one is even sketchier than usual though, legally.
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