scraggy
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Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures of tall, elegantly scraggy humans loom large in people’s minds.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2022
Unaccountably angry and smug, the scraggy Smithers is Brutus’s cynical, conniving cohort.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2017
Trim the chicken thighs of scraggy bits of skin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2016
Back on the beach, Maria Dolores is cutting a piece of ham to offer to the couple of scraggy dogs, which are skulking under the picnic table.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2013
The thin shoulders were hunched forward so as to make a cavity of the chest, the scraggy neck seemed to be bending double under the weight of the skull.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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
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
He was the leanest, scraggiest long thing I have ever seen.
From The Mountebank by William John Locke
“It’s the scraggiest part of the whole forest,—only fit for owls to live in!”
From The Joyous Story of Toto by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
The old sailor, ignorant of Arabic feminine names, thought it a “misnomer”, for of all his she-persecutors she was the leanest and scraggiest.
From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid
