scuzzy

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While Big Brown's human connections are kinda scuzzy, the horse himself is quite appealing.

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  • Although he seems, just from that description, like a scuzzy character, he's mostly like everyone else in this movie: quietly miserable. —  California Chronicle
  • The scuzzy, painted, barely civilized pariahs they show became the public face of the biggest environmental conflict of the decade. —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
  • Nothing comes close to Senfter's still-awesome debut "Kernkraft 400", a scuzzy, electro-punk reworking of an old videogame riff which gatecrashed the UK Top 10 in —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Tuvalu offered deliberately scuzzy, tinted black-and-white visuals to serve a madcap allegory for Eastern Europe's awkward modernization, plus dialogue that consisted entirely of grunts and one-word exclamations. —  www.philadelphiaweekly.com Philadelphia Weekly
  • To see him wrestling in the back rooms of those scuzzy halls is to see some kind of strange, spandexed Aslan down on his luck. —  The First Post: Latest
 

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  1. Possibly from blend of scum and fuzz1.
 

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