Editing 1101: Sketchiness
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Sketchy is an adjective meaning not thorough or detailed, but which in modern slang is often used to connote creepiness, or a general feeling that something is not quite right. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sketchy Urban Dictionary] provides a good definition of "someone or something that gives off a bad feeling". | Sketchy is an adjective meaning not thorough or detailed, but which in modern slang is often used to connote creepiness, or a general feeling that something is not quite right. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sketchy Urban Dictionary] provides a good definition of "someone or something that gives off a bad feeling". | ||
β | In this comic, [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] rates words by how sketchy they make the sentence "Hey baby, wanna come back to my sex ____?" when inserted into the blank. As noted from the scale (which already starts at "sketchy" and goes up to "very sketchy" | + | In this comic, [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] rates words by how sketchy they make the sentence "Hey baby, wanna come back to my sex ____?" when inserted into the blank. As noted from the scale (which already starts at "sketchy" and goes up to "very sketchy", the sentence itself is already inherently sketchy, in that it sounds like it would be a pickup line delivered by a person attempting to solicit sex from a stranger. |
The sketchiness is increased by the various words which run from the ''relatively'' common or understood to the obscure and unusual. | The sketchiness is increased by the various words which run from the ''relatively'' common or understood to the obscure and unusual. |