scraggy
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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
Goat-horned half-demons with scraggy coats of fur, lolling tongues and threatening bundles of birch branches are no one’s idea of a welcome guest on a winter’s night.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2019
Unaccountably angry and smug, the scraggy Smithers is Brutus’s cynical, conniving cohort.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2017
I shambled about the field on scraggy legs, squalled for passes that never came my way.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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 Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
He was the leanest, scraggiest long thing I have ever seen.
From The Mountebank by Locke, William John
On our way we paused to admire the church bell—an ancient dinner-bell, which hung by a piece of string from the longest and scraggiest arm of a very old and leafless tree.
From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Pritchett, R. T. (Robert Taylor)
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 Reid, Mayne
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 Fyles, Franklin
He imagines 254 that he has demolished one quarter of the scraggiest hen in the hen-house.”
From A Very Naughty Girl by Meade, L. T.
