sketchily

sketchy | American Dictionary

sketchy
adjective
us/ˈsketʃ·i/
not detailed or not complete:
Officials provided only sketchy details of the trip.

Examples of sketchy

sketchy
In short, a crude narrative was used to give sketchy context to a number of tricks and grand illusions.
I n contrast, existing comparisons of nonlinear theories and computations with experiments are sketchy, revealing qualitative rather than quantitative similarities.
However, the idea of productance functions remains sketchy.
The chapter on microplanning, while providing a lengthy overview of the tasks, is sketchy when it comes to techniques.
In many cases psycholinguistic evidence is rather sketchy.
Undergraduates nowadays get more teaching in family planning, but this is often sketchy and varies very much from medical school to medical school.
Although a laudible attempt, the vast expanse of coverage inevitably meant some significantly sketchy treatment.
More significantly, the qualitative side of party membership has remained sketchy.
The main shortfall occurs when the author offers arguments against sketchy accounts of rule-based grammars.
Evidence on voter turnout is sketchy, and until 1990 only estimates are available to assess the level of electoral par ticipation.
A sketchy, twenty-six - page chronology at the end of the book is not par ticularly usef ul.
We limit ourselves here to a sketchy description of the amount of resources which are necessary for working out such a development.
The house record on the contested election cases is somewhat sketchy.
The writings in this collection range from fully realized works on topics of great philosophical interest, to sketchy notes on her travels.
Summing up, the key policy paper is still the action plan from early 2004, but that paper was sketchy and not a coherent policy document.
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