scraggy
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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
Back on the beach, Maria Dolores is cutting a piece of ham to offer to the couple of scraggy dogs, which are skulking under the picnic table.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2013
I shambled about the field on scraggy legs, squalled for passes that never came my way.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
After leaving the timber-line, the riders found the scrub bushes grew scraggier and shorter, and finally the top of the peak was left as bare and craggy as any volcanic formation.
From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
The old sailor, ignorant of Arabic feminine names, thought it a “misnomer”, for of all his she-persecutors she was the leanest and scraggiest.
From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid
She wore a blaze of jewels and a low gown out of which rose the scraggiest neck and shoulders I have ever looked on.
From Eleven Possible Cases by Franklin Fyles
“It was the rummiest vehicle you ever saw,” he heard Jones say; “a cart, I assure you—nothing more or less, and drawn by the very scraggiest scarecrow of a blind horse.”
From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by H. C. (Harold C.) Earnshaw
“It’s the scraggiest part of the whole forest,—only fit for owls to live in!”
From The Joyous Story of Toto by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
He imagines 254 that he has demolished one quarter of the scraggiest hen in the hen-house.”
From A Very Naughty Girl by L. T. Meade
