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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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Kharg Island, targeted in US air strikes on Saturday, is a scrubby stretch of land in the Gulf that handles almost all of Iran's crude exports.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

To reach Australia’s pole in 2022, Brown flew to a town in the interior desert, rented a 4X4 and off-roaded across scrubby ranchland.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

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 • Jan. 5, 2025

Before long they had reached the edge of the settlement and made their way beside a sluggish stream through bare-twigged scrubby bushes.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman