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Discover LudwigThe phrase "albeit sketchy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to acknowledge a situation or information that is somewhat incomplete or lacking in detail, while still being valid or acceptable.
Example: "The report provided some insights into the project, albeit sketchy, which helped us make a preliminary decision."
Alternatives: "although vague" or "even if unclear".
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Yet the theory that Queen Charlotte may have been black, albeit sketchy, is nonetheless one that is gaining currency.
The New Yorker, July 26, 1999 P. 87 Briefly noted book review of "From the Black Hills" (Random House; $23.95) by Judy Troy... [I]t's the author's nuanced, albeit sketchy, portraits of the adults involved — especially Mike's taut, fragile mother — that compel attention.
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Or why some two million people per month visit the "Fish Cam" (home.netscape.com/fishcam/), which provides sketchy albeit real-time images of a fish tank.
And so Raja ultimately ditches the servant woman who raises him; becomes the doted-on only son in a middle-class family (albeit one with a mentally sketchy mother); gets a good education; marries an upper-crust girl; and, after a few years of feckless navel-gazing, stumbles into a career as a journalist.
Promoting Piero as a kind of celebrity, albeit one whose personal life remains sketchy (apart from several sly self-portraits and a historically resonant death date: Oct. 12, 1492), may not be that far-fetched.
The steps Bush outlined in somewhat more (though still sketchy) detail will come mostly in the form of police work, albeit police work of an unprecedented intensity, breadth, urgency, and global scale.
Sketchy characterization.
Albeit flawed.
"Pretty sketchy stuff".
"You want sketchy?
Is that sketchy?
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