Example Sentences

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That sense of scrubbiness in nature, as of a man unshaved, had never been conveyed with this enthusiasm and primeval gusto before.

From Robert Browning by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

I could feel it growing, and the first scrubbiness of it filled me with rage.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 30, 1917 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

Good teeth mean good deglutition; a clear eye means an active liver; scrubbiness and undersizedness mean feeble virility.

From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Allen, Grant