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scraggly

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Pecan trees, in particular, can be harmed by too much salt, growing scraggly and producing less fruit.

Spalding was scraggly bearded and endlessly aggrieved, and some of his fellow clerics believed he was deranged.

All I could see now was that his once sexy, scraggly hair was so obviously a wig.

The wrap looked a little scraggly close up, but from any distance Valerie seemed an image out of the golden age of Hollywood.

He was unshaven, with a goatee and long, scraggly hair, and looked miserable and not a little creepy.

He had a scraggly beard and his once clean-shaven head was ringed by a horseshoe of graying hair.

The snake is wriggling like crazy, but now has its neck wound around a couple of scraggly bushes.

His scraggly beard was thrust forward aggressively, and his deep-set eyes fairly blazed between narrowed lids.

A smoky tunnel, a scraggly belt of half-city—and then the real country.

The Cap'n, glancing behind, noted that a certain scraggly island had once more slid into view from behind a wooded head.

That portion of his face not covered by the scraggly beard was as white as mud and dirt would permit.

A tall, contemplative man with a scraggly gray beard—an angular Christ-like figure—appeared.

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On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scraggly, such as: bedraggled, scruffy, unkempt, badly dressed, badly worn, and dilapidated.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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