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Unsurprisingly, the adjective sketchy originally described something relating to or resembling a sketch, as in "a sketchy portrait." But because sketches are by nature rough and ill-defined, sketchy soon came to mean "wanting in completeness, clearness, or substance," as in "a sketchy understanding" or "sketchy details."

What lacks completeness, clearness, or substance is also subject to doubt or challenge, and sketchy went on to develop uses applying to what is questionable or iffy, either for physically obvious qualities or for something less tangible. In sports we see this sense of sketchy applied to a track or surface that is poorly maintained, as in "a sketchy track," and in broader use it is applied to streets and neighborhoods that can also be described as seedy, as in "a sketchy part of town."

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The adjective has more recently extended in use to describe someone who creates an impression of unsavoriness, or something that comes from an untrustworthy source or is itself untrustworthy, as in "a sketchy dude" or "a scheme that sounds sketchy."

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This usage has come up in a few LL posts over the years (e.g. "Sketchballs", 2/18/2006; "Skeevy", 6/22/2009), but we've never tried to track its origin and progress in time and space. It's not easy to do this, because even today, the great majority of uses of sketchy are the more traditional senses.

One way past this problem is to look for particular collocations (like "sketchy guy(s)") that are highly likely to involve the new sense. Tracking this phrase in Google books, we find this from the teen novel Brave New Girl (2001):

But before 1994, the Google Books trail goes cold for "sketchy guy(s)". Turning to "sketchy street", we find Amanda Anderson, Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (1993):

I remember first seeing this word used in the snowboarding culture of the early 1990's, to describe terrain. You would describe a jump and/ or landing as sketchy if it was rutted, icy, had a rock that was hard to avoid, or whatever. I seem to recall seeing the word used this way both locally (in the interior of BC) and in national US magazines.

I suspect it's driven by the usage of "sketchy character". In crime and moral novels, there's clearly a correspondence between a character being cursorily developed and being flawed, impoverished or unsettling.

My impression is that "sketchy" in the "inadequate" sense boomed in the late 80's, so it would seem about right for the usage moving from "sketchy information about a person" to "a person with a sketchy character".

Looking around in 2004, I found plenty of examples of sketchy in these senses, plus some in the perhaps earlier senses 'under the infuence of drugs; messed up'. And some of the verb sketch 'act extremely nervous, esp. under the influence of marijuana'. And plenty of the (negatively) evaluative adjective sketch (overlapping a lot with the slang adjective w(h)ack), especially in the context "[situation or person] is so sketch". A few notes on the phonology and syntax of "whack adjectives" here.

"A friend of mine who had been a crystal meth addict in the 1980's used the term in different forms relating to that drug. She said for example, a sketcher- a user; sketching- experiencing intoxication; sketchy- to describe someone who might be under influence of meth. The caller was from a major city in Oregon, which fits with these definitions because the use of crystal meth was rampant there for a time."

The image it conveys to me is 1. something being shadowy or poorly detailed, and thus suspect; mixed with 2. police sketches of criminals. When I describe something as sketchy, I am saying it/they bring this to mind.

sketchy-schmetchy; what about "till I got to Virginia"? The use of "till" rather than "until" or " 'til" seems to be rising in popularity. Another is "alot" rather than "a lot". Do we not care at all anymore?

I know I was using it in 1996 because I recall, when trying to sublet a room in an apartment from another student, that one of us used "sketchy" in an early conversation and we later referred back to it as a sort of shibboleth indicating we would get along. I was in college in the northeast and the sublet was in southern california.

To me a sketchy argument is less of an incomplete argument than perhaps actually a potentially rhetorically effective argument with questionable logic. Mark Antony's argument in Julius Caesar, though well-outlined, is "sketchy" for the type of rhetoric it uses.

Well, these don't antedate the earliest things so far, but they provide some more data. Searching Google Books for "sketchy situation" (with quotes), I got the following two hits from 1980. I'm just going to paste in the whole snippets because the first is independently amusing. (Note the category label.)

I was barely a teenager in 1990, and never remember a time when "sketchy" seemed a new or foreign term. The word "sketch", though, meaning the same, did strike me as new [e.g. "That guy was super sketch"]. I assumed (unreflectively) this was the inspiration for Gretchen Weiner's faux-trendy neologism "fetch" ("it's British") in _Mean Girls_.

My acquaintance with the "new" sense of "sketchy" dates from the early '90s via my children, then in their early teens. As for "alot," I see that a lot, mostly (entirely?) in online comments. Different population, or different medium?

An established collocation like "a sketchy past" may be the place where the established sense changed into the one that's apparently innovative. In this instance, "sketchy" clearly means "lacking detail," but can be readily reanalyzed as "suspicious," based on the context where it's likely to occur.

I was in college around the turn of the millennium (east coast, DC area), and sketchy was widely used among all the students (myself included). And like a commenter above pointed out, to most of us it had only a single meaning (the new one). I still have trouble "seeing" an older sense when reading it (for instance, in the quotes above) because the word has such a basic singular meaning to me, and it clouds my ability to interpret the other senses well.

I recall what I'm pretty sure was a Far Side cartoon that plays on the two senses of sketchy. I can't find it online and don't have the books to hand, but it features a couple of stick men among the usual Far Side-style characters, and the caption is something like "Just then a couple of real sketchy characters walked in". That was my first encounter with the "shady" sense (and I wondered if Larson had made a mistake), and I've only come across it a handful of times since then. The Far Side was published up to and including 1994 according to Wikipedia.

I learned it when I started college in 2005. It's used pretty heavily at Stanford, often preceding "grad student". Other common variants I've heard include "sketch" (as Will said, rarely if ever a plain adjective) and "sketchball" (a sketchy person, roughly the same meaning as "sleazeball").

I also never used "sketchy" in this context until I went to university in the US (I had also lived in the US when I was younger, but probably was too young to add this to my vocabulary). At university, I discovered that my use of the word "dodgy" was new to the American students, who quickly determined that it was equivalent to their "sketchy", and we started using each other's words for fun.

I have been familiar with phrases like "sketchy character" and "sketchy neighborhood" for a long time, although I can't pinpoint when I learned them. Like Mark in the early comments, I associate the former phrase with the genre of crime writing. A text search on Amazon shows an old book called "Sketchy characters of gold fields life," which is indexed at the National Library of Australia ( ) as having been published in Sydney in 1900. One cannot be sure of the meaning there, but it at least seems potentially consistent with other meanings discussed here. One would expect to find some sketchy/dodgy characters in and around Australian gold fields. (I suspect it is not an alternative way of saying "character sketches.")

I heard the word "sketchy" in the "shady" sense at least as early as 1997-98 while at grad school (at Brown, in Providence RI); most specifically from a student who hailed from the Bay Area, although it was in somewhat wide use. I may have heard it before then, because it didn't strike me as particularly new (though the meaning is usually also clear from context), although I'm fairly sure *I* didn't start using it until then. However, when I moved back to the Midwest (west-central IL) in 2003, I definitely started getting a lot of funny looks and questions about the word in this sense, including from college-age students, so it was not yet universal at that point. ff782bc1db