scraggy
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He said: "A scraggy dog hit me square between the shoulders and knocked me over. I'd never been so glad to see the old girl. And I think she felt the same".
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2024
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
“With this brand, you will be of a gang too. The mangy, scraggy, sorry gang of Beast Riders.”
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
Then was he sparely clad, in garments of faded hue, tattered and dust-stained; his mount the scraggiest of mustangs—a very Rosinante.
From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Mayne Reid
He was the leanest, scraggiest long thing I have ever seen.
From The Mountebank by William John Locke
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
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 R. T. (Robert Taylor) Pritchett
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
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