scraggy
Americanadjective
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lean or scrawny
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rough; unkempt
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Etymology
Origin of scraggy
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Clambering up a scraggy path on a hill looking over the foggy city of Lima, Justina Flores is trying to figure out what she's going to cook today.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2022
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
He has a way with dimension: Three simple lines on the page can give a demon’s skin texture or reveal the scraggy ribs on the underbelly of a winged hell beast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2016
I watched him swing his scraggy leg in a sweeping arc, watched his whole body tilt impossibly to the right every time he planted that foot.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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
“It’s the scraggiest part of the whole forest,—only fit for owls to live in!”
From The Joyous Story of Toto by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
He was the leanest, scraggiest long thing I have ever seen.
From The Mountebank by William John Locke
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
On our way we paused to admire the church bell—an ancient dinner-bell, which hung by a piece of string from the longest and scraggiest arm of a very old and leafless tree.
From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by R. T. (Robert Taylor) Pritchett
Then was he sparely clad, in garments of faded hue, tattered and dust-stained; his mount the scraggiest of mustangs—a very Rosinante.
From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Mayne Reid
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