sketchy

The great Barry Corbin, of “Northern Exposure” and “The Closer,” shows up as a sketchy character Woody’s incarcerated father owes money to.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Another pet peeve for many are sketchy cycling lanes in a city where 18 percent of all trips are made by bike.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

The hill is the Duke of Richmond’s driveway, a narrow lane taking in nine surprisingly sketchy turns, a bit more than a mile long, ascending the grounds of Goodwood Estate in West Sussex.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

Details of Tuesday's arrest remain sketchy, but police confirmed operatives from its Force Intelligence Department and Intelligence Response Team were involved.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Roman historians, scholars of antiquity and sketchy accounts support all of these views.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

Southern California’s most dangerous surf spot, the Wedge, has become even sketchier in recent months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

With help from Morricone, whose interviews anchor the documentary, Tornatore ably fills in the composer’s family history, though the details become sketchier as the musician’s fame steadily grows.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

He has stayed here even as this stretch of Lankershim Boulevard became sketchier, even as the COVID-19 pandemic forced him to lay off all his employees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2023

Omicron’s impact is difficult to gauge in other parts of the world, where data are often sketchier.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 25, 2022

I told Annabeth and Grover about my latest dream, but the details got sketchier the more I tried to remember them.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

He messaged Lutz about his experiences: “It was definitely the sketchiest thing I have ever had to do.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026

Huge sums of money are now available for the sketchiest of projects, from "blue hydrogen" to the sea-bed mining of rare-earth minerals.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2021

“The majority gives only the sketchiest of reasons for reversing Teague’s watershed exception,” Kagan wrote.

From Slate ● May 17, 2021

Over two recording sessions for Columbia Records in early 1959, Davis would hand out the sketchiest of outlines for the music and leave the rest to extemporization.

From Washington Post ● May 25, 2020

As to principles of treatment in a disease of so varied and indefinite a character, due to such a multitude of causes, obviously nothing can be said except in the broadest and sketchiest of outline.

From Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson