scraggy
Example Sentences
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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
Unaccountably angry and smug, the scraggy Smithers is Brutus’s cynical, conniving cohort.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2017
He has a way with dimension: Three simple lines on the page can give a demon’s skin texture or reveal the scraggy ribs on the underbelly of a winged hell beast.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2016
I watched him swing his scraggy leg in a sweeping arc, watched his whole body tilt impossibly to the right every time he planted that foot.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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