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In the process he often produced a curious scragginess.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had been excessively pretty, but had rather lost her looks after a bad illness, and her worst affliction was now a tendency to scragginess, cleverly concealed where the chest was no longer visible.

From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Praed, Campbell, Mrs.

He seemed to be encircled by swelling forms and sleek, fat faces, which ever and ever protested against his own martyrlike scragginess and sallow, discontented visage.

From The Fat and the Thin by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

Where do all the scraggy, bad-fleshed beasts come from that we see daily in our fat markets, and what is the cause of their scragginess?

From Cattle and Cattle-breeders by M'Combie, William

Their composite paunchiness, beardedness, scragginess, spectacledness, impressed me unfavourably when, from my Hosea-carriage, I first beheld them.

From The Red Planet by Locke, William John