scrappy
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Wax figures of scrappy, earnest young communists gesticulate during a 1921 meeting frozen in time, debating how best to bring Marxism to China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
And he hadn’t allowed more than one baserunner in any inning, squashing the scrappy Rays’ ability to manufacture a run.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
A spoof film, by nature, is always going to be a bit scrappy.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
By 1999, King had been awarded an MBE for services to music as the Mobos grew from scrappy underdog to music industry fixture, holding its own against the long-established Brit Awards.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
He was little, yeah, and he had those nasty scars on his cheeks, but dude seemed strong and scrappy as hell.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
Smaller, scrappier fairs like Post-Fair and Felix are joined by newcomer Enzo, providing art lovers with plenty of opportunities to discover new art at a variety of price points.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
Serrano started strongly with sharp body work and accurate left hands from her southpaw stance, before the contest developed into a scrappier affair than expected.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
I’m really grateful for Veeps and the opportunity to do a special with them, they’re a little scrappy and they have a decent budget, but it’s definitely scrappier than all my other specials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2024
But what I found was that Black newsrooms, because we often had smaller budgets, we were scrappier.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2024
He was red-haired, ferret-eyed, and an excellent scout, but scrappier and more inarticulate in his manner of speech than any human being I had ever encountered.
From Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose by Allen, Grant
This is the probably the scrappiest I had to be since "Colma: The Musical."
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2023
Based on Daniel James Brown’s bestselling novel of the same name, “The Boys in the Boat” follows Joe Rantz, who’s perhaps the scrappiest of all his teammates.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2023
It was a long week of matches, featuring some of the scrappiest Overwatch I’ve seen this season.
From The Verge ● Jul. 25, 2022
The scrappiest of the three new parks, it is, at the moment, also my favorite.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2018
Take a dozen such pyramids, and do your morning constitutional over them, after the scrappiest of breakfasts at 5 a.m., and you will find twelve or fourteen miles quite as much as you care about.
From The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland by Romer, Cecil Francis
