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
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 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
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 Elinor Glyn
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
Their composite paunchiness, beardedness, scragginess, spectacledness, impressed me unfavourably when, from my Hosea-carriage, I first beheld them.
From The Red Planet by William John Locke
