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

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Several minutes of heavy gunfire alerted a group of conservation rangers guarding workers on the scrubby slope above.

From Reuters

Washington, the scrubby hills and canyons above Highland Park, and to entice buyers to become homebuilders, he installed a funicular system like Angels Flight to ascend and descend a thousand feet.

From Los Angeles Times

It is high desert — flat, brown, scrubby — with few natural attributes, save an abundance of sunshine that helps fuel a booming cannabis industry.

From Los Angeles Times

Because the boys had been forbidden to be up on that scrubby hillside, Graham can’t tell his stern CIA agent dad about the murder for fear of being grounded.

From Washington Post

They stumble forward without flashlights into the scrubby oak and sage.

From Los Angeles Times

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