scraggy
adjective
lean or thin; scrawny.
scragginess
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a word derived from
scraggy.
Example Sentences
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In the process he often produced a curious scragginess.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the first month, as one always does in Devon, she had walked herself to the verge of scragginess, then had gradually put on weight, as is the correct method.
From Leonie of the Jungle by Joan Conquest
The muscles had thickened over his chest and arms; his neck was losing the long scragginess of youth; his fingers were firm-jointed in his broadening hands.
From The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
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 William M'Combie
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 Mrs. Campbell Praed
