Thesaurus / scrubby
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He found it “truly an exceptional sight,” but one located in “scrubby country,” something to be sketched and remembered, but “not really worth a second trip.”
REKINDLING THE WONDER OF NATURAL BRIDGE, ONCE A TESTAMENT TO AMERICAN GRANDEURPHILIP KENNICOTTJUNE 17, 2021WASHINGTON POST“What we’re seeing is developers are taking advantage of the fact that the big stuff and the scrubby stuff have been averaged together,” Badgley said.
THE CLIMATE SOLUTION ACTUALLY ADDING MILLIONS OF TONS OF CO2 INTO THE ATMOSPHEREJAMES TEMPLE, LISA SONGAPRIL 29, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWI pulled up and glanced about, but the clumps of scrubby timber were just plentiful enough to cut off a clear view of the flat.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRThe popping of dry, scrubby timber warned us that our position would soon be untenable.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRKangaroos and other animals were seldom or never found there: they abounded usually in the more scrubby country.
THE ADVENTURES OF LOUIS DE ROUGEMONTLOUIS DE ROUGEMONTA scrubby looking white mare who was being shod turned her head and stared at Ebenezer and his small companion.
THE TALE OF PONY TWINKLEHEELSARTHUR SCOTT BAILEYJust here the road crossed a ravine full of boulders and rough scrubby growth, whereas beyond it was bare and open.
FAIR MARGARETH. RIDER HAGGARDIt was a covered-in dray, and had been brought to in a little clearing of the scrubby undergrowth.
THE PIONEERSKATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHARDAnd as for Nat Boody, whose stories he once listened to admiringly, what a scrubby personage he has become in his eye!
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 16, NO. 97, NOVEMBER, 1865VARIOUSNot an olive nor an orange grove is in sight and only a few scrubby vineyards dot the landscape.
ITALIAN HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS FROM A MOTOR CARFRANCIS MILTOUNWORDS RELATED TO SCRUBBY
- baby
- bantam
- bitty
- cramped
- diminutive
- humble
- immature
- inadequate
- inconsequential
- inconsiderable
- insufficient
- limited
- little
- meager
- microscopic
- mini
- miniature
- minuscule
- minute
- modest
- narrow
- paltry
- petite
- petty
- picayune
- piddling
- pint-sized
- pitiful
- pocket-sized
- poor
- puny
- runty
- scanty
- scrubby
- short
- shrimp
- slight
- small-scale
- stunted
- teensy
- teeny
- toy
- trifling
- trivial
- undersized
- unpretentious
- wee
- young
- all the worse for wear
- bare
- bedraggled
- broken-down
- crummy
- cure
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- degenerated
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- dog-eared
- down-at-heel
- faded
- frayed
- gone to seed
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- miserable
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- pot
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run down
- rundown
- scrubby
- scruffy
- seedy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- threadbare
- tired
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
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