scruffy

Wristbands designate how much parents love their children: enough for the all-access pass or just enough for access to the scruffy llama at the pop-up petting zoo?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Steffi Cao investigates a billionaire’s scruffy makeover, and explores why Silicon Valley’s power players are styling themselves to appear harmless.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026

Officer Britney Myers spotted the scruffy critter and climbed down a manhole after her, as seen in video from the agency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Indiana is in many ways a liminal state, the place you pass through between scruffy Cleveland and business-like Chicago, with little to inspire romantic odes to home.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

She crept up to the bag and found the scrawny, scruffy orange cat tangled in the soggy sack.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

As I drove there, the well-kept strip malls of Garden Grove transitioned to scruffier ones on the Stanton side.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

“Drive-Away Dolls” might suggest a return to a scruffier sensibility.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

The mug shot posted by the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office appears to show the same person as in the shot posted on Mr. Jurgens’ LinkedIn account, although he looks considerably scruffier in the arrest photo.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2023

During the pandemic, he has traded his Washington-based policy wonk look with a trimmed beard and buzzed hair for a shaggier and scruffier look to fit a Colorado mountain man.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2021

There are scruffier models where the cars have been blandly renovated but the antique controls remain, and imperfectly maintained ones that shudder and jerk as the elevator man flips the lever.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2017

She remembered being staggered by the size and opulence of the home, while Sullivan was at his desk "wearing the scruffiest tracksuit".

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

In the early days of their rise, the Stones were the most notorious, scruffiest band of hit-makers in the U.K., where one tabloid headline famously asked, “Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2019

Wild” has been on the air since 2006, he insists he hired a publicist last year “so I don’t have to do P.R.,” and that he’s “still always the scruffiest person at any meeting.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2012

For an hour and 13 minutes the converted Russian tuna boat chased one of the mightiest ships of the Seventh Fleet; in turn, it was chased by one of the scruffiest vessels in the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

I looked up into a pair of big black eyes and the scruffiest, fluffiest black-and- white face I’d ever seen.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler