(sketchier, sketchiest) not complete or detailed and therefore not very useful:
He gave us only a very sketchy account of his visit. * sketchy notes
sketchily adverb:
Some of the secondary characters in the novel are very sketchily drawn.
sketchiness noun [U]
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