[ 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
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How To Use scraggly In A Sentence

  • The rectory blinked in amber glitters between a scraggly screen of kapok trees fronting it.
  • He was wearing a suit, his tie in one of those enormous Windsor knots, but his trademark red beard was scraggly as always.
  • On the granite walls, overlapping graffiti tell of the utilisation of this space by both local youths and migrants, knitting their concerns together in an explosion of scraggly technicolour. An escape from the Arab Spring: one migrant's voyage to Europe
  • He was wearing a suit, his tie in one of those enormous Windsor knots, but his trademark red beard was scraggly as always.
  • ‘Well,’ Bob said as he widened his stance and rubbed his scraggly beard.
  • One glance at a photo of a scraggly-bearded Wilson, clad only in underwear and spools of magnetic tape, and the disinterest shown by station managers becomes quite understandable.
  • The boy was scraggly and thin, and his strange, purple eyes were constantly darting this way and that.
  • His scraggly beard, prayer callous on his forehead and thick glasses make him look more like an unpleasant and pious schoolmaster than a terrorist mastermind.
  • His pale face, which was thin and almost frail, was framed by a scraggly beard and long straight hair that was perfectly parted in the middle.
  • Now the slender spires of tamarack and balsam fir dominated a scraggly forest, while impenetrable-looking layers of hardy shrubs filled the understorey.
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