scraggy
Americanadjective
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lean or scrawny
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rough; unkempt
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Origin of scraggy
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Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures of tall, elegantly scraggy humans loom large in people’s minds.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2022
Unaccountably angry and smug, the scraggy Smithers is Brutus’s cynical, conniving cohort.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2017
Trim the chicken thighs of scraggy bits of skin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2016
Back on the beach, Maria Dolores is cutting a piece of ham to offer to the couple of scraggy dogs, which are skulking under the picnic table.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2013
The thin shoulders were hunched forward so as to make a cavity of the chest, the scraggy neck seemed to be bending double under the weight of the skull.
From "1984" by George Orwell
After leaving the timber-line, the riders found the scrub bushes grew scraggier and shorter, and finally the top of the peak was left as bare and craggy as any volcanic formation.
From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
Redwood rode a strong horse of the half-hunter breed, while the “wolf-killer” was mounted upon one of the scraggiest looking quadrupeds it would be possible to imagine—an old mare “mustang.”
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne
“It was the rummiest vehicle you ever saw,” he heard Jones say; “a cart, I assure you—nothing more or less, and drawn by the very scraggiest scarecrow of a blind horse.”
From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)
On our way we paused to admire the church bell—an ancient dinner-bell, which hung by a piece of string from the longest and scraggiest arm of a very old and leafless tree.
From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Pritchett, R. T. (Robert Taylor)
The old sailor, ignorant of Arabic feminine names, thought it a “misnomer”, for of all his she-persecutors she was the leanest and scraggiest.
From The Boy Slaves by Reid, Mayne
He imagines 254 that he has demolished one quarter of the scraggiest hen in the hen-house.”
From A Very Naughty Girl by Meade, L. T.
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