Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being sketched or delineated; suitable for being sketched; effective as the subject of a sketch.

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  • adjective Capable of being sketched.

Etymologies

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sketch +‎ -able

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Examples

  • It was especially sketchable, and "bits" of it were carried away in many an artist's portfolio.

    Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

  • The extreme solidity of its piers contrasts strongly with the exceedingly sketchy (and sketchable) bridges manufactured by the Kashmiri.

    A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

  • When there are three or four brown-breasted contadini sleeping in the sun before the convent doors, and a departing monk leading his shadow down over them, I think you will not find anything in Rome more < i > sketchable .

    Italian Hours Henry James 1879

  • To the _Spanish Vistas_ of Mr.G. P. Lathrop he contributed innumerable designs, delightful notes of an artist's quest of the sketchable, many of which are singularly full pictures.

    Picture and Text 1893 Henry James 1879

  • These are two in number -- a small one, which you enter first from the street, and a very vast and elegant one beyond it, which, with its light gothic arches and slim columns (of the fourteenth century), its broad walk, its little garden with old tombs and statues in the centre, is by far the most picturesque, the most sketchable, spot in Toulouse.

    A Little Tour of France Henry James 1879

  • Such vagueness has overtaken them, for the most part, and to such a thin reverberation have they shrunk, the persons and the affairs which were then so intensely sketchable.

    Picture and Text 1893 Henry James 1879

  • If he ring the bell to be admitted to see the court, which I believe is more sketchable still, let him have patience to wait till the bell is answered.

    A Little Tour of France Henry James 1879

  • Siena was eminently sketchable, but he had not been industrious.

    Confidence 1879

  • The structure in question -- very sketchable, if the sketcher could get far enough away from it -- is an elaborate little dusky façade, overhanging the street, ornamented with panels of stone, which are covered with delicate Renaissance sculpture.

    A Little Tour of France Henry James 1879

  • Why should all this sketchable adversity be lavished upon the neighborhood of a city that is so rich as Venice in picturesque dilapidation?

    A Foregone Conclusion William Dean Howells 1878

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