scruffy

Example Sentences

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She recalled being surprised by how scruffily dressed the businessman was when she met him, finding him in flip-flops, some well-worn red shorts and a T-shirt.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

During maternity leave for her younger child, Cora meets a scruffily cool husband and father named Sam at a local baby group and feels an immediate attraction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

That Hawke so closely aligns his cinematic style, inventive as it is, with the story’s disorderly, scruffily offbeat characters and settings is both a strength and a liability.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2018

Guest host Richard Blais had the watchful, thoughtful aspect of a scruffily handsome owl.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2016

On June 21, 1985, a few dozen scruffily dressed kids declared “Revolution Summer” with a thunderous “punk percussion protest” at the apartheid-era South African Embassy.

From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2015