Definitions
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- adjective sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
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Examples
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Every bit of land is tilled and farmed, even the scrabbly, rocky hillsides and the narrow strips of grass along the highway.
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Every bit of land is tilled and farmed, even the scrabbly, rocky hillsides and the narrow strips of grass along the highway.
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I shudder to think how much money has been wasted trying to grow grass on those poor scrabbly squares of dirt.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Around the huts are scrabbly vegetable gardens, and patches of corn fields, most of them picked clean.
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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.
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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.
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