scraggly

• “I was always worried about that, so I never grew a beard, just in case I inherited some kind of scraggly beard gene.”

  Family Day at AIG's $27 Million Lie - The Panda's Thumb

• “Man wanted over indecent assault in Adelaide's northern suburb POLICE are looking for a man with "scraggly" hair and a closely trimmed moustache after a teenage girl was indecently assaulted in the northern suburbs this morning.”

  AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories

• “Mr Fahey is about 170cm tall, with a fair complexion, blue eyes, a medium build with unkempt, brown, collar-length hair and a "scraggly" beard and moustache, police said.”

  NEWS.com.au | Top Stories

• “If you can get your hands on a kind of scraggly lulav at a sukkah supply store (that they sometimes sell in "kids sets", they will most likely let you take off leaves for free, or have some scraps around you can take.”

  Jewlicious

• “This ramshackle tin-roofed hole in the wall is located at the bottom of a small hill on Gip's scraggly lawn, which makes sense because juke joints are always found on the other side of the tracks in godforsaken places in the middle of nowhere.”

  The Huffington Post: Margie Goldsmith: Driving the Alabama Tornado Away and Singing the Blues

• “In addition, Gaddafi's scraggly hairline was blamed on a botched hair implant sometime in 2008 or 2009.”

  The Washington Post: Gaddafi is ecccentric but the firm master of his regime, Wikileaks cables say

• “In that flashing glimpse, even as he reined and spurred to make his own horse leap sidewise out from under, Harley Kennan observed the scratched skin and torn clothing, the wild-burning eyes, and the haggardness under the scraggly growth of beard, of the man-hunted man.”

  CHAPTER XXXVI

• “His hollow cheeks betrayed themselves through the scraggly beard, and his eyes seemed to have retired into deep caverns where they burned with cold fires.”

  THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN

• “Her scraggly grey hair was drawn unrelentingly and flatly back from a narrow, unrelenting forehead.”

  THE TEARS OF AH KIM

• “I was dizzy, but not unconscious, and very blissful with my old fingers buried in that lean and scraggly old neck I had sought for so long.”

  Chapter 15

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