Definitions

scrubby

[skruhb-ee] / ˈskrʌb i /

ADJECTIVE

shabby

Synonyms

WEAK

all the worse for wear bare bedraggled broken-down crummy cure decayed decaying decrepit degenerated desolate deteriorated deteriorating dilapidated dingy disfigured disreputable dog-eared down-at-heel faded frayed gone to seed mangy meager mean miserable moth-eaten neglected pitiful poor pot poverty-stricken ragged ramshackle ratty rickety ruined ruinous run down rundown scruffy seedy shoddy sleazy slipshod squalid tacky tattered tatty threadbare tired worn worn-out worse for wear wretched

Example Sentences

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Higher and higher they climbed, above the tree line, to where there were only rocks and scrubby plants and trickling mountain streams.

From Literature

It was a landscape of scrubby shrubs and chaparral and grasses.

From Los Angeles Times

But Sui Ching insists and, for once, her husband, Jack, follows her lead, and so the family heads south to the “twenty hectares of scrubby jungle and farmland” that now belong to her.

From Los Angeles Times

She says she had been stuck in France for two months, after travelling there from Vietnam via Hungary, sleeping in tents in a scrubby forest.

From BBC

Setting fires in the Sandhills of central North Carolina requires an understanding of moisture levels in the scrubby underbrush, and she gets a better sense of it in bare feet.

From Salon

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