scraggly
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Scraggly, drooping, wrinkled, half-dead: It’s not a new look for Halloween.
From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2021
Scraggly work gloves are strewn across the dusty dash of his pickup, a lariat in the side door, surplus Stetsons tossed in the back.
From Time • Jan. 28, 2013
Scraggly grass poked out between the cracks and in the brown dirt around the tree.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
Scraggly trees; thirty, or forty feet high; with trunks one or two feet in diameter.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
Scraggly, struggling pine stood here and there among the rocks, but shade was scant.
From I Conquered by Titus, Harold
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