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  • adjective sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush

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Examples

  • Every bit of land is tilled and farmed, even the scrabbly, rocky hillsides and the narrow strips of grass along the highway.

    North Korea food shortage worst in years, despite farms 2011

  • Every bit of land is tilled and farmed, even the scrabbly, rocky hillsides and the narrow strips of grass along the highway.

    North Korea food shortage worst in years, despite farms 2011

  • I shudder to think how much money has been wasted trying to grow grass on those poor scrabbly squares of dirt.

    Matthew Yglesias » Something for What? 2009

  • And in our two-hour drive from the airport, he was amazed by the scrabbly red Southwestern landscape, so different from the green and trees we had at home in Brooklyn; he asked me the name of every piece of brush he could see.

    Falling Apart in One Piece Stacy Morrison 2010

  • And in our two-hour drive from the airport, he was amazed by the scrabbly red Southwestern landscape, so different from the green and trees we had at home in Brooklyn; he asked me the name of every piece of brush he could see.

    Falling Apart in One Piece Stacy Morrison 2010

  • And in our two-hour drive from the airport, he was amazed by the scrabbly red Southwestern landscape, so different from the green and trees we had at home in Brooklyn; he asked me the name of every piece of brush he could see.

    Falling Apart in One Piece Stacy Morrison 2010

  • BERTINELLI: Well, yeah because it was on the road and we were listening in the dressing room and I could hear Ed talking and if you ` ve ever met my husband or ex-husband, he has a scrabbly voice, and it sounds like he ` s in the mafia.

    CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2009 2009

  • Around the huts are scrabbly vegetable gardens, and patches of corn fields, most of them picked clean.

    Living on Pennies 2008

  • The group plays gritty, scrabbly free improv of the kind popular throughout European post-jazz circles in the 70s, all scrapes and rattles and occasional mournful tones from Jean's flute, his signature instrument but one he mostly leaves aside here in favor of various bowed instruments.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Ed Howard 2008

  • The group plays gritty, scrabbly free improv of the kind popular throughout European post-jazz circles in the 70s, all scrapes and rattles and occasional mournful tones from Jean's flute, his signature instrument but one he mostly leaves aside here in favor of various bowed instruments.

    Noroît (une vengeance) Ed Howard 2008

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