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scraggy

[skrag-ee] / ˈskræg i /






















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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

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

I shambled about the field on scraggy legs, squalled for passes that never came my way.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini




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