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Definition of Sketchiest
1. sketchy [adj] - See also: sketchy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sketchiest
Literary usage of Sketchiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1913)
"Such in the sketchiest of outline only is something of the brain-neurology, it
may be, of the afferent intelligence that fuses into the fast-growing infant ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1866)
"Artists now dash off, rather than embody, their humorous conceptions in the
sketchiest of all possible styles, and that which affords the greatest licence ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1880)
"So much, in sketchiest outline, for the religious aspect of the difficulty; while
as for the second of the two points indicated above as tending to set all ..."
4. Woodrow Wilson and World Settlement by Ray Stannard Baker (1922)
"Their occasional references to the diplomatic dealings of the Allies among
themselves convey only the sketchiest and most distorted impressions of the state ..."
5. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1916)
"... the sketchiest kind of an Introduction would have sufficed, but the moment he
passed to the second phase of his subject and sought to prove the action ..."
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