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
Unaccountably angry and smug, the scraggy Smithers is Brutus’s cynical, conniving cohort.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2017
Trim the chicken thighs of scraggy bits of skin.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2016
The men all roared, none louder than Chiswyck himself, who laughed so hard at his own story that snot dribbled from his nose down into his scraggy grey beard.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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