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  • adverb In a scruffy way.

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Examples

  • He's appeared to chat about what it has meant for a decade or so to be so badly drawn, and to sing a song from his 2000 Mercury Prize winning album The Hour of Bewilderbeast, the kind of scruffily enlightened record that can easily be someone's favourite, and one from what will be his newest album, Is There Nothing We Could Do?

    Culture | guardian.co.uk Paul Morley 2009

  • According to US State Department officials the man, who was scruffily-dressed and appeared to have psychological problems, was intercepted by Secret Service Agents while trying to climb into the White House through the window to the Lincoln Bedroom.

    British Vagrant Arrested in White House Dungeekin 2009

  • It's telling that the most talked-about businessman in the world right now isn't Warren Buffett or Bill Gates—it's Mark Zuckerberg, a 26-year-old, scruffily dressed Jewish kid who started a cultural revolution in his dorm room and inspired a movie that just may win the Oscar for best picture.

    Two Cheers for the Maligned Slacker Dude Nathan Rabin 2011

  • "Drive" matches the nakedly brutal (an explosion of violence in a nightclub that evokes Weimar decadence) with the scruffily lyrical (The Driver taking Irene and her sweetly soulful young son Benicio—he's played by Kaden Leos—for a drive down the barely moist cement channel of the Los Angeles River.)

    'Drive': A Rolls of an Action Film Noir Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • All in all, it seems to me that England played scruffily and won - that is always good enough on the day, and they can build on it.

    Wales v England: five things we learned from Six Nations 2011 opener 2011

  • According to US State Department officials the man, who was scruffily-dressed and appeared to have psychological problems, was intercepted by Secret Service Agents while trying to climb into the White House through the window to the Lincoln Bedroom.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • The truth is, Jonathan Franzen is on the cover of Time because he wrote The Corrections, not, despite what some want to think, because he's scruffily handsome and could be a model for J. Peterman.

    Melanie Benjamin: How to Dress an Author 2010

  • The truth is, Jonathan Franzen is on the cover of Time because he wrote The Corrections, not, despite what some want to think, because he's scruffily handsome and could be a model for J. Peterman.

    Melanie Benjamin: How to Dress an Author 2010

  • Waving Iranian flags and pictures of Ahmadinejad, the crowd crushed into the restraining bars, some of them shedding tears at the presence of their scruffily bearded hero.

    Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010

  • The truth is, Jonathan Franzen is on the cover of Time because he wrote The Corrections, not, despite what some want to think, because he's scruffily handsome and could be a model for J. Peterman.

    Melanie Benjamin: How to Dress an Author 2010

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