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

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

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 Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

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)

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

From The Mountebank by Locke, William John

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.

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

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 Reid, Mayne