scraggly
Americanadjective
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irregular; uneven; jagged.
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shaggy; ragged; unkempt.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of scraggly
Example Sentences
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A shriek broke the dawn on the savannah, followed by more screeches and the rustle of branches: The wild Fongoli chimps were bidding each other good morning in the dry, scraggly Sahel.
From Barron's
Her two children, Jackson and Jesse, are scraggly moppets in some scenes and almost adults in others.
From Salon
It was just a field of shrubs and grass and a few scraggly trees.
From Literature
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
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