scraggy
Example Sentences
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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
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