scruffier

She’s a kind of scruffier version of the Countess.

Maigret in Montmartre Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1958

Among his other smart moves, creator Jeff Eastin (whose last TV series was the far less successful throwback Hawaii) spares us any 48 Hours-type sparring between Neal and the FBI agent who caught him and is now stuck with him: Peter Burke (played with equal if scruffier appeal by Tim DeKay).

USA's 'White Collar': You'll want to catch this thief 2009

He and his sisters lived peripatetically, eventually settling in Swiss Cottage, Hampstead's scruffier neighbour.

Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre 2011

While the director, Carlos Saldanha, is Brazilian, some of the scruffier citizens of this Rio have Mexican accents.

Animated 'Rio': A Witty Carnival of Brazil Nuts Joe Morgenstern 2011

The opening of the Ace Hotel in 2009 helped jump-start a revitalization of the neighborhood, though it is still scruffier than popular downtown destinations like SoHo or the Meatpacking District.

NoMad Hotel Gets Investors to Plant Roots Craig Karmin 2011

Dubliners Dead Cat Bounce are a case in point: a first-class comedy band that have it in them to be Ireland's even scruffier answer to Flight Of The Conchords.

This week's new comedy 2011

Dubliners Dead Cat Bounce are a case in point: a first-class comedy band that have it in them to be Ireland's even scruffier answer to Flight Of The Conchords.

This week's new comedy 2011

The neat, middle-class enclaves of Edinburgh or Leeds, with their almost wholly middle-class streets and playgrounds, offer a different life from scruffier, moresocially mixed but increasingly gentrified Hackney or Lambeth.

Is the British middle class an endangered species? 2010

 He'll be a bit tidier, you'll be a bit scruffier.

Who Do You Say I Am 2010

All have dressed up for the occasion - and my doesn't Andy Roddick look strange without a baseball cap attached to his head or clutched in a sweaty palm - except Roger Federer, who looks 1,000 times scruffier in a grey suit and official Wimbledon tie than he hever lets himself appear in his made-to-measure outfits on court.

Wimbledon 2010 live blog: 24 June 2010