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[ US /ˈskɹæɡɫi/ ]
[ UK /skɹˈæɡli/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. being very thin
    pale bony hands
    a long scrawny neck
    a child with skinny freckled legs
  2. ragged, thin, or untidy in appearance
    a scraggly little path to the door
    the old man's scraggly beard

How To Use scraggly In A Sentence

  • And face it, killing pretty cooing birds is always going to get a way worse reaction in a telephone survey than killing nasty, scraggly, filthy ole pigs. Poll Shows Iowans Oppose Dove Hunting
  • A frown of irritation creased his brown and weather-beaten face, obscured by a scraggly black beard that tended to make him rather inscrutable, and probably enhanced his reputation amongst the villagers.
  • The trunk of the hickory is unique in appearance as the bark separates from the tree in long platelike strips which hang on at one end and give the scraggly appearance from which the tree derives its name. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
  • Don Shirley, an understated man with steel-frame glasses and a scraggly beard, was a kindred spirit.
  • Unlike his usual clean-shaven hottie appearances, Ping Hui sported scraggly-looking facial hair for his upcoming Ch 8 CID/informant drama series with fellow MediaCorp artistes Chen Liping and Rui En. The man loves it and finds it a "manlier" look. Www.hardwarezone.com.sg
  • At dawn for the past two mornings, great scraggly flocks of rooks mixed with a few jackdaws pour over our base moving from their roosts to the freshly plowed fields.
  • the old man's scraggly beard
  • In that flashing glimpse, even as he reined and spurred to make his own horse leap sidewise out from under, Harley Kennan observed the scratched skin and torn clothing, the wild-burning eyes, and the haggardness under the scraggly growth of beard, of the man-hunted man. CHAPTER XXXVI
  • Seated on his left, Georgia had the misfortune of being eye level with an oozing pimple buried in his scraggly sideburn. Georgia’s Kitchen
  • The young boy, scraggly and thin, struggled against him before kicking him in the leg and darting off.
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