scraggy

Clambering up a scraggy path on a hill looking over the foggy city of Lima, Justina Flores is trying to figure out what she's going to cook today.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2022

Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures of tall, elegantly scraggy humans loom large in people’s minds.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2022

Unaccountably angry and smug, the scraggy Smithers is Brutus’s cynical, conniving cohort.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2017

He has a way with dimension: Three simple lines on the page can give a demon’s skin texture or reveal the scraggy ribs on the underbelly of a winged hell beast. 

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2016

Here it is overgrown with bruja-haired trees and scraggy deep grass up to the shoulders.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

After leaving the timber-line, the riders found the scrub bushes grew scraggier and shorter, and finally the top of the peak was left as bare and craggy as any volcanic formation.

From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

The old sailor, ignorant of Arabic feminine names, thought "it a misnomer," for of all his she-persecutors she was the leanest and scraggiest.

From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid

She wore a blaze of jewels and a low gown out of which rose the scraggiest neck and shoulders I have ever looked on.

From Eleven Possible Cases by Franklin Fyles

Redwood rode a strong horse of the half-hunter breed, while the “wolf-killer” was mounted upon one of the scraggiest looking quadrupeds it would be possible to imagine—an old mare “mustang.”

From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Mayne Reid

“It was the rummiest vehicle you ever saw,” he heard Jones say; “a cart, I assure you—nothing more or less, and drawn by the very scraggiest scarecrow of a blind horse.”

From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by H. C. (Harold C.) Earnshaw

He was the leanest, scraggiest long thing I have ever seen.

From The Mountebank by William John Locke