Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With leanness and roughness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a scraggy manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
scraggy way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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That got me thinking -- what if she looked like a witch, all scraggily-haired, boney-knuckled and warty?
Peggy Drexler: Beauty and the Candidate Peggy Drexler 2010
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The third general--an old, hunchbacked man dressed in rags, with a scraggily beard and wild left eye--stepped forward.
Doug Lieblich: The Lost 1001 Arabian Nights Doug Lieblich 2011
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I also try to save the plant no matter its size or scraggily appearance.
Archive 2010-06-01 Olga Bonfiglio 2010
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His hair was a dark blond, long and scraggily, reaching past his shoulders.
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The third general--an old, hunchbacked man dressed in rags, with a scraggily beard and wild left eye--stepped forward.
Doug Lieblich: The Lost 1001 Arabian Nights Doug Lieblich 2011
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After awhile I saw some scraggily looking guy holding a piece of paper.
I Wrote a Book Nathaniel Tower 2011
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I also try to save the plant no matter its size or scraggily appearance.
Farm Journal: Meditations Over the Onions Olga Bonfiglio 2010
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His hair was a dark blond, long and scraggily, reaching past his shoulders.
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Just over a hundred years ago, plump was considered a desirable, healthy, attractive form, while thinness was seen as scraggily and even sickly.
Infusing a Little Loving Kindness into the 'War on Obesity' 2010
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I also try to save the plant no matter its size or scraggily appearance.
Archive 2010-06-01 Olga Bonfiglio 2010
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