scruffy

Example Sentences

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In the first, Lopez, wearing a crew-neck shirt, glasses and a scruffy beard, stands in his garage in front of a black Lamborghini.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

There’s no way for a general moviegoer to know what the ratio of fiction to nonfiction in is a scruffy DIY object like “Burt,” with characters playing versions of themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

Smith's game management and kicking ability would be an obvious fix to some rather scruffy and disjointed play that did not allow England to build any pressure in the first Test.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025

They voted for a scruffy guy in a leather jacket promising pain now, gain later.

From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025

If she’d seen him in the mall somewhere, she probably would’ve thought he was a skater—cute in a scruffy way, a little on the wild side, definitely a troublemaker.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan