scragginess
- a word derived from scraggy.
Example Sentences
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In the process he often produced a curious scragginess.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is not the least look of scragginess about her, just extreme slenderness, a small-boned creature of perhaps five foot four or five, with childish outline.
From Man and Maid by Glyn, Elinor
But the scragginess did not injure their health, and as the grass grew, and the hunting improved, the meat began to come once more upon their bones.
From Dusty Star by Baker, Olaf
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
However, Sandoz, compassionating the scragginess of the girl, whom he kept watching, judged her in one sentence.
From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
