scratchy

[ US /ˈskɹætʃi/ ]
[ UK /skɹˈæt‍ʃi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. easily irritated or annoyed
    not the least nettlesome of his countrymen
    an incorrigibly fractious young man
  2. causing abrasion
  3. lacking consistency
    the golfer hit the ball well but his putting was spotty
  4. unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
    a gravelly voice
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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.
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