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scruffy

adjective as in rough, bedraggled

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Smith's game management and kicking ability would be an obvious fix to some rather scruffy and disjointed play that did not allow England to build any pressure in the first Test.

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They voted for a scruffy guy in a leather jacket promising pain now, gain later.

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During maternity leave for her younger child, Cora meets a scruffily cool husband and father named Sam at a local baby group and feels an immediate attraction.

When we think about the white guys who care, it isn’t scruffy, banged-up dudes like Lee who come to mind.

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And yet “Steve,” sincere in its hardcore concern, believably acted, is too scattered and schematically plotted to fully pull us into the emotional toll and scruffy joys of this work.

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