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US
/ˈskɹætʃi/
]
[ UK /skɹˈætʃi/ ]
[ UK /skɹˈætʃi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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easily irritated or annoyed
not the least nettlesome of his countrymen
an incorrigibly fractious young man - causing abrasion
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lacking consistency
the golfer hit the ball well but his putting was spotty -
unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
a gravelly voice
How To Use scratchy In A Sentence
- Did you know that sacking-like scratchy large-weave fabric with vaguely hairy fibres, the stuff they put on display screens and trendy flower arrangements, is called Hessian?
- I was greeted by grey bleakness and a scratchy woolen blanket and a hard wooden floor.
- The poem is still at the Jackson Pollock stage - a mess of scratchy lines and blobs of ink on a yellow ground.
- The carpet felt scratchy beneath my blistered feet, so I tiptoed all the way to the door.
- The scratchy blankets were tucked around her, and Robert was spooned behind her against the wall.
- ‘I look forward to it, then,’ came a soft and scratchy voice from behind.
- This exhibition of what is essentially downtown art—physically and intellectually scratchy—in Knoedler's tweedily uptown space should put a happy end to that question for a while. Feats of Rock, Paint & Clay
- Very stuffy nose + scratchy raw throat + epiglottal snot goblins. Odin's Day
- Later, as they lay wrapped in scratchy sheets, her eyes flashing a very ordinary hazel and she cackled, “I have an idea.” 365 tomorrows » 2009 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
- He works in a scratchy, unpolished drawing style that looks like something put down in haste right after the event.