scraggy
Example Sentences
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“There are a lot of very old, scraggy toothbrushes out there.”
From The Guardian
He claims men sent by Castro, scraggily bearded and dressed in military fatigues, stormed the offices of 386 private Cuban businesses, forcing out the owners.
From Fox News
Five girls, photographed in front of a stone wall and scraggy hillside, have tricked themselves out in full Gothic-Victorian funeral garb: black lace mantillas, black fans, and teary marcelled locks.
From The New Yorker
This is what she brought to Celine when she took the reins, in 2008—a sense of luxurious happenstance, that women could be scraggy and sophisticated at the same time.
From The New Yorker
Unaccountably angry and smug, the scraggy Smithers is Brutus’s cynical, conniving cohort.
From The New Yorker
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.