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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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
It was Wannabe - the scrappily brilliant debut single by The Spice Girls.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2021
When America faces turmoil, baseball scrappily grinds out hope.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2016
But he scrappily worked his way out of tense jams in the third and fifth innings, getting the left-handed-hitting Ankiel out both times with runners in scoring position.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2011
Well then, we were put in possession of the Homer of Chapman, and to work we went, turning to some of the ‘famousest’ passages, as we had scrappily known them in Pope’s version.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin
