sketchy

Preposition: on

• detail: Beyond that I'm a bit sketchy on the details - I just know it looks good.

Preposition: at

• moment: Details of the cause are sketchy at the moment.
• point: Details are awfully sketchy at this point, as the artist did not want to spoil the story before its release.
• stage: Even if information is sketchy at that stage, it's important to get a consistent and regular message across.

Modifies a noun

• detail: Bush administration officials have publicly provided only sketchy details of the nuclear review.
• idea: We now have 2 years to decide exactly how to put these sketchy ideas into practice.
• account: From the foregoing short and sketchy account three points become very clear.
• knowledge: Now I must admit I have only a sketchy knowledge of Cash's career.
• information: Any further details about the Rowley Regis Home Guard, to add to the above rather sketchy information, would be warmly welcomed.
• outline: Now these locos have a most interesting history of which only a sketchy outline is known to me.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: Any further details about the Rowley Regis Home Guard, to add to the above rather sketchy information, would be warmly welcomed.
• somewhat: Details of how the service would work are somewhat sketchy at present.
• fairly: Altogether I painted twelve landscapes in fairly sketchy form.
• extremely: Blake himself seems rather secondary and his character is extremely sketchy.
• very: M & Y tended to produce very sketchy notes compared to sighted students.
• little: The first couple of runs were a little sketchy, flat out moorland into blind fades that you could seriously get some airtime on.

Infinitive complement

• say: The early sources are sketchy to say the least.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: Details of how the stolen laptop came to be handed in to investigators remain sketchy.
• become: Coombs may have fallen trying to initiate rescue assessment At this point the details become sketchy, according to Telemark Tips.
• seem: His announcement received a broad welcome, although the plans and timing still seem sketchy.