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scruffy

adjective as in rough, bedraggled

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And yet “Steve,” sincere in its hardcore concern, believably acted, is too scattered and schematically plotted to fully pull us into the emotional toll and scruffy joys of this work.

Those clean heels look a bit scruffy now.

From BBC

I think this will be very tight and quite a scruffy game but as long as Forest win it, they won't care.

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The area drew a scruffy mix of loggers and dockhands, and Skid Row eventually became shorthand for any part of a city where drunks and vagabonds gathered.

She does not really have a defensive presence when the game is scruffy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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