scraggly

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It may be scraggly, and it may even have mange and it shits on the rug, but it's yours now, and it's depending on you, so take care of it.

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  1. adjective Ragged; unkempt.

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  • His ugly, scraggly-bearded face broke into a broad smile. —  053 - He Could Stop the World
  • The only boon gleaned from the township was a scraggly, bone-thin pony found in the near woods. —  Witch Gate.htm
  • That is, he met a tall, scraggly-looking farmer with the old produce truck The truck stood in the middle of the road down which the red-headed engineer was walking. —  081 - Hex
  • And so he had remembered the scraggly-toothed old hag who had led them into a trap. —  081 - Hex
  • He saw the back of a head The hair was scraggly, unshorn. —  043 - Cold Death
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