scraggy

He said: "A scraggy dog hit me square between the shoulders and knocked me over. I'd never been so glad to see the old girl. And I think she felt the same".

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2024

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

The train runs northwest, through hundreds of miles of scraggy forests and granite outcrops, hundreds of small blue anonymous lakes edged with swamp and bulrushes and dead spruce, old snow in the shadows.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

He imagines 254 that he has demolished one quarter of the scraggiest hen in the hen-house.”

From A Very Naughty Girl by L. T. Meade

The old sailor, ignorant of Arabic feminine names, thought it a “misnomer”, for of all his she-persecutors she was the leanest and scraggiest.

From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid

He was the leanest, scraggiest long thing I have ever seen.

From The Mountebank by William John Locke

The old sailor, ignorant of Arabic feminine names, thought "it a misnomer," for of all his she-persecutors she was the leanest and scraggiest.

From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid

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