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scraggly

[ skrag-lee ]

adjective

, scrag·gli·er, scrag·gli·est.
  1. irregular; uneven; jagged.
  2. shaggy; ragged; unkempt.


scraggly

/ ˈskræɡlɪ /

adjective

  1. untidy or irregular


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Word History and Origins

Origin of scraggly1

First recorded in 1865–70; scrag + -ly

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Example Sentences

All I could see now was that his once sexy, scraggly hair was so obviously a wig.

The wrap looked a little scraggly close up, but from any distance Valerie seemed an image out of the golden age of Hollywood.

He was unshaven, with a goatee and long, scraggly hair, and looked miserable and not a little creepy.

He had a scraggly beard and his once clean-shaven head was ringed by a horseshoe of graying hair.

The snake is wriggling like crazy, but now has its neck wound around a couple of scraggly bushes.

His scraggly beard was thrust forward aggressively, and his deep-set eyes fairly blazed between narrowed lids.

A smoky tunnel, a scraggly belt of half-city—and then the real country.

The Cap'n, glancing behind, noted that a certain scraggly island had once more slid into view from behind a wooded head.

That portion of his face not covered by the scraggly beard was as white as mud and dirt would permit.

A tall, contemplative man with a scraggly gray beard—an angular Christ-like figure—appeared.

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