sketchy
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The Express wants to know how Burnham intends to "bring back hope" to the UK, suggesting that new prime minister was "sketchy on the details" in his speech outside No 10.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
“You have this guy with this sketchy legal past and the cherry on top is…he’s never been a developer of a data center,” said Scurries, 34, a vocal opponent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
One way to make this less of a sketchy move is to check in first.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 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
It had been a little sketchy there for a while, but in the end everything had turned out great.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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
But for loved ones caught up the wake, navigating is even sketchier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2018
While it’s most common in the sketchier corners of the internet, hackers have also been able to inject the cryptojacking software onto websites for Showtime and PolitiFact and on e-commerce platforms.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2018
Naturally, Europe and its many loops were well-defined, but farther afield things got sketchier.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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
“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
My last job had been working at the juice bar of a funky, not-too-clean health food store in one of the sketchiest neighborhoods in L.A.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2012
He spoke nothing but the truth, for he had but the sketchiest acquaintance with the composition of any kind of machinery.
From In Brief Authority by Anstey, F.
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