scraggy

• “One of them is about 6ft, of medium build with shoulder length 'scraggy' hair.”

  London - Muslim Capital of Europe

• “She was tall for her fourteen years, and very slender – "scraggy," Jim was wont to say, with the cheerful frankness of brothers.”

  Mates at Billabong

• “Most of the captives were of the appearances denominated "scraggy" or "knotty.”

  Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War

• “He then pointed to a scraggy camelthorn tree about one hundred yards away and said, You will live under that tree.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Bushman Way of Tracking God

• “Joe's moustache does look a bit like feathers, he has a long scraggy neck, an understanding of the forest, and a tentative, birdlike walk.”

  The Guardian: TV review: My Life as a Turkey

• “Moding Ngolapus tightens a string round its scraggy neck, while his friend takes a roughly made bow, crouches and aims a blunt arrow from about 3ft away.”

  The Guardian: Uganda: nomads face an attack on their way of life

• “But the country, surely, will embrace him, scraggy beard and scowl and whinge and all, without reservation if he cuts 75 years of a dire past adrift and wins the men's singles title.”

  The Guardian: Andy Murray calm before facing Rafael Nadal for a place in the final

• “The scraggy branches of a tree in the foreground run out at us as if they would scratch our eyes out.”

  The Huffington Post: Are 19th Century Stereographs The Modern-Day GIF?

• “The soil was barren, scarcely affording pasture for a few miserable cows, and oatmeal for its inhabitants, which consisted of five persons, whose gaunt and scraggy limbs gave tokens of their miserable fare.”

  Chapter 19

• “Four days into my trip, I throttled down and turned into fifty acres of scraggy mobile homes on the outskirts of Silvington, Indiana.”

  Simon & Schuster: Miracles, Inc.

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