scraggy
Example Sentences
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The soldiers call it a forest, though it's just a line of scraggy trees separating them from Russian positions.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025
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
The train runs northwest, through hundreds of miles of scraggy forests and granite outcrops, hundreds of small blue anonymous lakes edged with swamp and bulrushes and dead spruce, old snow in the shadows.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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