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scraggy

[skrag-ee] / ˈskræg i /






















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The soldiers call it a forest, though it's just a line of scraggy trees separating them from Russian positions.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures of tall, elegantly scraggy humans loom large in people’s minds.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2022

Goat-horned half-demons with scraggy coats of fur, lolling tongues and threatening bundles of birch branches are no one’s idea of a welcome guest on a winter’s night.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2019

Unaccountably angry and smug, the scraggy Smithers is Brutus’s cynical, conniving cohort.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2017

They were less noticeable now than they had been, but still a scraggy young ratatoska watched them from the bridge.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell