scrappy
adjective
made up of scraps or of odds and ends; fragmentary; disconnected.
scrappily
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a word derived from
scrappy.
Example Sentences
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Back at her family home, Adriana Briceño holds up an old T-shirt with a few sentences scrappily scrawled on it in pen.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
These hard-luck domestic scenes could have rung false or forced, but no one who saw “We the Animals,” Zagar’s scrappily intimate 2018 family drama, will be surprised by how assuredly he handles them here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
His verses are scrappily beautiful collage-poems achieved by cutting, pasting, excising and mating words and phrases by different writers into seamless meditations on humanity, death and art.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2018
When America faces turmoil, baseball scrappily grinds out hope.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2016
There was the same great advantage gained by a man of genius who wrote best scrappily and by episodes.
From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
