sketchiness
Quality of seeming shady
Sketchiness is the quality of being sketchy—incomplete, vague, or suspicious.
A plan might have sketchiness in its details, leaving too much undefined.
More often the word describes an unsettling or dubious quality: The sketchiness of the neighborhood made her nervous, There was a certain sketchiness to the whole operation.
The suspicious sense dominates contemporary usage.
Questionable trustworthiness
- dubiousOf uncertain reliability
- questionableOf uncertain validity
- fishyArousing doubt, colloquially
- dodgyQuestionable in character
shifty · unreliable · untrustworthy · shady · suspicious · crooked · underhanded · dishonest
Uneven in surface
- unfinishedNot yet complete
- preliminaryBefore the main part
- cursoryHasty and incomplete
- hastyExcessively quick, ill-considered
superficial · bare-bones · incomplete · vague · undeveloped · rudimentary · imprecise · loose
Disturbingly strange
- unsettlingCausing unease or discomfort
- uncomfortableCausing unease or distress
- eerieDisturbingly strange
- off-puttingCausing mild aversion
discomfort · nervousness · anxiety · edginess · jitters · trepidation · foreboding · bad vibes
Sense of unease about motives
- distrustAbsence of confidence
- misgivingsFeelings of doubt
- skepticismDisposition toward doubt
- warinessCautious distrust
doubt · leery · apprehension · caution · hesitation · red flags · gut feeling · second thoughts
shadiness
Questionable trustworthiness
- dubiousOf uncertain reliability
- questionableOf uncertain validity
- fishyArousing doubt, colloquially
dodgy · shifty · unreliable · untrustworthy · shady · suspicious · crooked · underhanded · dishonest · deceptive
rough
Uneven in surface
- unfinishedNot yet complete
- preliminaryBefore the main part
- cursoryHasty and incomplete
hasty · superficial · bare-bones · incomplete · vague · undeveloped · rudimentary · imprecise · loose · unpolished
creepy
Disturbingly strange
- unsettlingCausing unease or discomfort
- uncomfortableCausing unease or distress
- eerieDisturbingly strange
off-putting · discomfort · nervousness · anxiety · edginess · jitters · trepidation · foreboding · bad vibes · weird
suspicion
Sense of unease about motives
- distrustAbsence of confidence
- misgivingsFeelings of doubt
- skepticismDisposition toward doubt
wariness · doubt · leery · apprehension · caution · hesitation · red flags · gut feeling · second thoughts · reservations
- Unreliabilityflakiness, inconsistency, undependability, untrustworthiness, unpredictability
- unclearnessvagueness, ambiguity, obscurity, haziness, fuzziness
sketchinessthoroughness
Attention to every detail
completeness · comprehensiveness · detail · elaborateness · exhaustiveness
sketchinesstrustworthiness
Quality of being reliable
reliability · dependability · legitimacy · soundness · respectability
sketchinessexactness
Correctness in every detail
accuracy · precision · definiteness · clarity · specificity
sketch, sketchy, sketching, sketched, outlines, sketches, sketchbook, sketchpad, sketcher