Thesaurus / scrubby
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
I 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. SINCLAIR
The popping of dry, scrubby timber warned us that our position would soon be untenable.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
Kangaroos and other animals were seldom or never found there: they abounded usually in the more scrubby country.
THE ADVENTURES OF LOUIS DE ROUGEMONTLOUIS DE ROUGEMONT
A 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 BAILEY
Just here the road crossed a ravine full of boulders and rough scrubby growth, whereas beyond it was bare and open.
FAIR MARGARETH. RIDER HAGGARD
It was a covered-in dray, and had been brought to in a little clearing of the scrubby undergrowth.
THE PIONEERSKATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHARD
And as for Nat Boody, whose stories he once listened to admiringly, what a scrubby personage he has become in his eye!
Not 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 MILTOUN
They were now on a lonely stretch of road with gently rolling land on either side of them, dotted with a scrubby growth of trees.
BETTY GORDON IN THE LAND OF OILALICE B. EMERSON
The whole mountain is a mass of gray granite rock, destitute of vegetation, save an occasional scrubby cedar or bush of artemisia.
EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS 1748-1846, VOLUME XXXJOEL PALMER
WORDS 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.