scraggy
Example Sentences
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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
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
Here it is overgrown with bruja-haired trees and scraggy deep grass up to the shoulders.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.