scraggly
Americanadjective
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irregular; uneven; jagged.
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shaggy; ragged; unkempt.
adjective
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Origin of scraggly
Example Sentences
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Her two children, Jackson and Jesse, are scraggly moppets in some scenes and almost adults in others.
From Salon
On Jan. 9, as the Eaton fire still blazed, Davis returned to his own home to capture in watercolors the scraggly trees, the overturned plants, the still-standing chimneys.
From Los Angeles Times
The Vietnamese people smuggler emerged, briefly and hesitantly, from the shadows of a scraggly forest close to the northern French coastline.
From BBC
Still, the mention of native, low-water landscaping, or xeriscaping, conjures images of dusty plots with a few cactuses and scraggly shrubs interspersed with rocks.
From Seattle Times
With a scraggly stem a few meters tall, a handful of slim branches and modest, hand-shaped leaves, it doesn't look like anything special.
From Salon
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