scruffy

Example Sentences

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While core elements like electricity and running water are functioning, lifts and toilets remain covered in plastic wraps and are scruffy in appearance.

From BBC

A scruffy shrub fence that was in desperate need of trimming leaned all around it.

From Literature

"It was pretty tough this morning. Feel like I hit some pretty scruffy golf shots, which in some ways is to be expected."

From Barron's

A few years later, scorned by the king, Magellan is limping around Lisbon like a scruffy, taskless animal.

From Los Angeles Times

Joseph’s look contrasts with the somewhat scruffy beard and receding hairline of the donor kneeling at the right.

From The Wall Street Journal