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Sketchily

adverb
1.
In a sketchy incomplete manner.  "The dishes were only sketchily washed"






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"Sketchily" Quotes from Famous Books



... will be grievously misunderstood if it is supposed to be in any way an attempt to cover, even sketchily, the whole ground of American civilisation, or to give anything like a coherent appreciation of it. In the main it is merely a record of personal impressions, a series of notes upon matters which happened to come under my personal observation and to excite my personal interest. ...
— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead

... they hoped to bring about, but they both understood the nature and significance of the expedition. Dick,—who was used to the easy accomplishment of his designs and purposes, for most obstacles gave way before his magnetic onslaught,—had only sketchily outlined his scheme of proceedings, but he trusted to the magic of that inspiration that seldom or never failed him. He was the sort of young man that the last century novelists always referred to as "fortune's favorite," and his luck so rarely ...
— Outside Inn • Ethel M. Kelley

... The vicar introduced us sketchily, and the faded Victorian wife regarded my aunt with a mixture of conventional scorn and abject respect, and talked to her in a languid, persistent voice about people in the neighbourhood whom my aunt ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

... oppressively popular style with emphasis on Baxter and Le Blond. Jackson is mentioned often but sketchily as the ...
— John Baptist Jackson - 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut • Jacob Kainen



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