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
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
“Don’t worry,” he said to you, and he sat down cross-legged, pulling his T-shirt over his scraggy knees.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
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