scraggy
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
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
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
![]()
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.