scraggy
Americanadjective
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lean or scrawny
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rough; unkempt
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Origin of scraggy
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Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures of tall, elegantly scraggy humans loom large in people’s minds.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2022
Unaccountably angry and smug, the scraggy Smithers is Brutus’s cynical, conniving cohort.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2017
Trim the chicken thighs of scraggy bits of skin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2016
Back on the beach, Maria Dolores is cutting a piece of ham to offer to the couple of scraggy dogs, which are skulking under the picnic table.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2013
The train runs northwest, through hundreds of miles of scraggy forests and granite outcrops, hundreds of small blue anonymous lakes edged with swamp and bulrushes and dead spruce, old snow in the shadows.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
After leaving the timber-line, the riders found the scrub bushes grew scraggier and shorter, and finally the top of the peak was left as bare and craggy as any volcanic formation.
From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
She wore a blaze of jewels and a low gown out of which rose the scraggiest neck and shoulders I have ever looked on.
From Eleven Possible Cases by Franklin Fyles
He was the leanest, scraggiest long thing I have ever seen.
From The Mountebank by William John Locke
The old sailor, ignorant of Arabic feminine names, thought it a “misnomer”, for of all his she-persecutors she was the leanest and scraggiest.
From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid
He imagines 254 that he has demolished one quarter of the scraggiest hen in the hen-house.”
From A Very Naughty Girl by L. T. Meade
Redwood rode a strong horse of the half-hunter breed, while the “wolf-killer” was mounted upon one of the scraggiest looking quadrupeds it would be possible to imagine—an old mare “mustang.”
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Mayne Reid
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