Sketchily

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a sketchy manner.

    "But, bowing with sketchily joined hands, they smiled their way clumsily out, down to the darkness."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a sketchy incomplete manner wordnet

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"But, bowing with sketchily joined hands, they smiled their way clumsily out, down to the darkness."

Etymology

From sketchy + -ly.

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