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sketchily

sketchily adverb: in a sketchy manner.

Adverb

sketchily (comparative more sketchily, superlative most sketchily)

  1. In a sketchy manner.
    • But, bowing with sketchily joined hands, they smiled their way clumsily out, down to the darkness.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 514
    • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/
      The Hunger Games has its share of standalone payoffs, though some are too sketchily developed to have much of an impact, like Katniss’ motherly connection to Rue.

sketchily meaning in Malayalam

sketchily in Malayalam

incompletely, perfunctorily, cursorily
സ്ഥൂലമായി, അശ്രദ്ധമായി, അലസമായി, അറകുറെ, മുഴുവനാകാതെ, നടപടി പാലിക്കാൻവേണ്ടി മാത്രമായി

Forms of sketchily

comparativemore sketchily
superlativemost sketchily

Origin of sketchily

From sketchy + -ly.

Questions about sketchily

What does sketchily mean?
Sketchily means in a sketchy manner.
What is sketchily in Malayalam?
Sketchily in Malayalam is സ്ഥൂലമായി, അശ്രദ്ധമായി, അലസമായി. See Sketchily meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is sketchily?
Sketchily is an adverb.

Words near sketchily in the dictionary

  1. sketches
  2. sketches out
  3. sketcheth
  4. sketchier
  5. sketchiest
  6. sketchily
  7. sketchiness
  8. sketching
  9. sketching out
  10. sketchings
  11. sketchist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sketchily (page history and authors); sketchily (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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