sketchy
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“You have this guy with this sketchy legal past and the cherry on top is…he’s never been a developer of a data center,” said Scurries, 34, a vocal opponent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Details of Tuesday's arrest remain sketchy, but police confirmed operatives from its Force Intelligence Department and Intelligence Response Team were involved.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
One way to make this less of a sketchy move is to check in first.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
In comments on the Times article, some Platner supporters declared that his sketchy past, including the Fifield allegations, makes him seem more like a man of the people.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
So the only light came from pinprick holes in the walls, and from a sketchy rectangle that outlined the imperfectly fitted door.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
When my parents divorced, things became much sketchier for my mom, and I did live with her for the first part.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2024
Omicron’s impact is difficult to gauge in other parts of the world, where data are often sketchier.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 25, 2022
Getting there requires one of the sketchier boot-packs I’ve ever done, along an icy, knife-edge ridge where the prospect of a catastrophic fall looms large.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2021
But it is also about the narrative of a community in rapid flux: amid the upheaval, is a free apartment a glitch from the sketchier past, something to be rectified in the name of progress?
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2019
Naturally, Europe and its many loops were well-defined, but farther afield things got sketchier.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
He messaged Lutz about his experiences: “It was definitely the sketchiest thing I have ever had to do.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
“The majority gives only the sketchiest of reasons for reversing Teague’s watershed exception,” Kagan wrote.
From Slate ● May 17, 2021
Over two recording sessions for Columbia Records in early 1959, Davis would hand out the sketchiest of outlines for the music and leave the rest to extemporization.
From Washington Post ● May 25, 2020
My last job had been working at the juice bar of a funky, not-too-clean health food store in one of the sketchiest neighborhoods in L.A.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2012
He spoke nothing but the truth, for he had but the sketchiest acquaintance with the composition of any kind of machinery.
From In Brief Authority by F. Anstey
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