sketchy

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

"If you're with someone who has a sketchy background, then you should be made aware of that," said Johnstone.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

But he was only 5, so the memories are kind of sketchy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

In comments on the Times article, some Platner supporters declared that his sketchy past, including the Fifield allegations, makes him seem more like a man of the people.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

I slid my On the way to the house, we gleaned sketchy bits of information from Hugh about what had happened, but mostly we just ran.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

When my parents divorced, things became much sketchier for my mom, and I did live with her for the first part.

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 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

Getting there requires one of the sketchier boot-packs I’ve ever done, along an icy, knife-edge ridge where the prospect of a catastrophic fall looms large.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2021

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

“That was the sketchiest part. I got behind the heavy snowband for a little bit,” he said.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022

“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

Thus, although we rose before 6 P.M. on December 16, the start was not made until 8.30 P.M., notwithstanding the fact that the meal was of the "sketchiest" character.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson