How To Use Scruffy In A Sentence

Not that he is preening: he is careless about his blond good looks, a scruffy hipster beard giving maturity to his rather angelic face. Times, Sunday Times
We were lectured by numerous academic doctors, usually wearing scruffy sports jackets or ill-fitting white coats. Times, Sunday Times
While in the daytime it looked just kept enough to be scruffy, the thick cool of the night hid its dinginess and transformed it into something almost beautiful.
The Dodgers were “dem Bums,” the “daffiness boys,” the unpretentious clowns, whose fans were seen as scruffy bluecollar workers who spoke with bad diction. Wait Till Next Year
Next, a scruffy-looking student enthusiastically volunteered to lace him into a straightjacket and secure him with padlocks and chains.

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There is a man, approximately my age, attractive in a scruffy, academic sort of way brown corduroy jacket, one of those narrow, stripey, many-coloured scarves that men are wearing this season coiled around his neck, tufty brown hair, sitting across the aisle to my right on a strapontin. Power, corruption and lies
His hair is unkempt and his clothes scruffy; his eyes are red and he seems permanently on the point of tears. Times, Sunday Times
I finished work today, go to pick the car up and lo and behold some scruffy twoccers have smashed the window, nicked the stereo which is no good because I kept the face with me and completely ripped all the ignition out.
Both girls had over-the-top suntans, scruffy blonde hair, and very long legs in extremely tight jeans.
He's got more cheekbone than Snoop, bloodshot and rheumy eyes, and he's wearing a scruffy black overcoat and woolly hat.
Its runways made a distinctive pattern, a slanting cross, as if some one had slammed a rubber stamp on the scruffy countryside.
Maybe toffs aren't offensive as long as they're scruffy?
He had a scruffy old teddy bear which went by the name of Augustus.
The scruffy ex-student had been the final auditionee accepted on to the next stage of the show.
Joining them is Hallyday, who plays a higher-ranking mobster and their minder, and Renaud, a scruffy, dangerous criminal known only as ‘Zero.’
Then all these scruffy layabouts who had nothing better to do with their time than try to prevent law-abiding country folk from tearing foxes apart could be arrested and prosecuted.
The crisp new outfit is in contrast to Mercy's scruffy orphanage clothes. The Sun
Bilko's motor-pool privates were scruffy, lazy, unattractive slobs who liked to do as little work as possible, never paraded and were almost fearful of weaponry.
His scruffy appearance made him look dirty next to the clean bright sterile walls of the hospital.
Were you surprised to see those drunk scruffy bastards start moshing?
Down La Canebière I stroll, heading for the glinting, faraway turquoise eyespot of the Old Port, following women dressed in ankle-length raincoats and Islamic head scarves, long-faced men in frayed djellabas and knit skullcaps, gangly youths with scruffy beards. Sunstroked
Her graceful neck rises higher than the trees, like a giraffe in slow motion, her liquid eyes staring curiously, then dismissively, at the gaping humans; she returns to her grazing as if these late-model mammals were no more worthy of note than their scruffy shrewlike ancestors, with whom she shared the Earth 130 million years ago. Here Come The Dnasaurs
He's young, stubbly and scruffy, a slouchy cool that makes one think that Kate must be cool and edgy, too. 'Kate-alikes': Would-be princesses find a new muse in Kate Middleton
Say there's a scruffy old fragment of woodland down the road from you. Times, Sunday Times
The image of beer belly, scruffy jeans and T-shirt is vanishing as one in eight delivery drivers dons a shirt and tie for work. The Sun
He is scruffy, self-effacing and funny and conjures up all of these attributes in his perennially popular excursions to far-flung corners of the globe.
Francona, who could have taken a conservative stance against his players' scraggly hair and scruffy beards, instead embraced his team's approach.
Tangent comment.... does R.Orci the guy on the left in the photo look like a scruffy, greyheaded Lt. Data? Kurtzman and Orci Talk About The Future of Star Trek | /Film
Perched awkwardly atop each tree was a scruffy but huge Californian condor.
Certain parts of Bolton are dirty and scruffy, caused by a minority of dirty people and neglect.
The male is described as of thin build, slim features, 6ft, short brown hair, early 30s, wearing a long, black scruffy coat.
Photographs show him wearing the scruffy T-shirt and jeans that were the student's uniform of the time.
I threw some scruffy old clothes into the skip outside my house recently. Times, Sunday Times
Especially since Jill was an eyeful and I was just your average scruffy male.
He had scruffy ginger-colored hair, at least one of his knees or elbows was scraped at pretty much any given time, and he'd once popped a wheelie on his bicycle while Bridget watched.
The clothes they'd purchased were scruffy, torn, and slightly odiferous.
His scruffy appearance does not reflect his character.
She rehearses and plays gigs with her band in scruffy rehearsal studios and sleazy bars in New York City. Desperately Seeking | The Stiletto Gang
Well, there's no reef at El Gouna itself, so each morning would-be divers climb into a minibus and head off down a dusty unmade road to a small scruffy dock where Dive Tribe's day-boats await.
They all looked disheveled with dirty clothing and most of them had scruffy beards and scraggly hair.
We have moved into a cosy tack room where a homemade cake is on a scruffy wooden kitchen table and dogs whine for attention. Times, Sunday Times
Stephanie wore black trousers, a pair of DMs, a long-sleeved T-shirt -- a burgundy body with orange sleeves -- and a scruffy black jacket. CHAMELEON
I can't do anything about my floppy face - it always looks dirty and scruffy. The Sun
Amid a scruffy sprawl of warehouses and marinas, on a former brownfield site in Tacoma, Washington, sits the sparkling new Museum of Glass.
If you show up in scruffy jeans and a T-shirt they won't kick you out, but, if you are the kind to feel self-conscious, you may feel like you've crashed the wrong party.
I like the idea of a cute but scruffy dog. Times, Sunday Times
His hair is unkempt and his clothes scruffy; his eyes are red and he seems permanently on the point of tears. Times, Sunday Times
Bit scruffy and mangy himself, but blessed with a true heart of gold.
There may well be kids growing up in scruffy homes because of poverty, or the ill health of a parent, but those kids may well be loved and happier than other kids who have well off parents. Perverting The Course Of Everything « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Photographs show him wearing the scruffy T-shirt and jeans that were the student's uniform of the time.
He has wide eyes and a scruffy beard, speaking with a voice that fills the room. Times, Sunday Times
But he has long, wavy hair and a scruffy red goatee that was so long he had to fold it underneath his chinstrap.
They would never come in scruffy, they were very grand and en route to marrying very well - the gossip was wonderful.
Imagine it - scruffy shoeshiners and grungy postcard sellers getting the chance to enjoy what so many of us take for granted.
The people I have known have been a scruffy lot, a ragtag of mongrels from all over the place, but I would not change them for the world.
The old town around the splendid natural harbour is picturesque enough in a scruffy way. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
Wow, what's with the scruffy old mountain man?
A scruffy little kid aged between 12 and 14 came in and tried to steal the charity box from the counter.
Just as scruffy lobbies are a thing of the past in posh developments, so too are old-style concierges.
It's all about contrasts and contradictions - the smart and the scruffy, the rough and the smooth.
‘Simple semantics may help quell patients' fears that they will be seen by a scruffy, disinterested youth who may well later report their intimacies in the bar,’ he writes.
But after the lava scene, a scruffy dark-haired caveman appears, wrestling with a warthog. The Memory Palace
Some spruce up scruffy gardens while owners are out. The Sun
Prime Minister Gordon Brown was recently awarded a Best Actor BAFTA for his portrayal of a half-blind, malformed scruffy, deluded fantasist who believes himself to be a world statesman - a performance described by the academy as 'on a par with Olivier's Richard III'. Mandelson Nominated for BAFTA
But by carefully cultivating the small growing space available at his home on what he describes as a "scruffy" London terrace, he is "having fun" and "eating some great food. Homegrown Pleasures, No Lectures
Remember before the Microsoft era, back when the archetype of the computer engineer was not that of a laid-back, semi-cool, scruffy geek but that of a strait-laced, uptight, button-down IBM company man with a company haircut? Gene and the Machine: The shocking truth about the electric Volt
He's an overweight scruffy herbert with more than a passing resemblance to Captain Caveman.
Stout and scruffy, the 36-year-old Daniels looks more suited to a football field than La Fenice, but as a countertenor, the highest male voice in opera, he sings in a falsetto.
When I lived near there a few years ago, the corner was like a souvenir of West Berlin's improvisatory spirit, and I could imagine it extending into some indefinite future, with its slightly scruffy, but unmistakable vitality intact. Kreuzberg Bellyaches Over Kebab Tourism
Turns out he's this aging hippy with stringy hair and a scruffy face.
He came in, a scruffy, even shabby figure in old blazer and grey shorts. COFFIN ON THE WATER
I wore it to some rather posh restaurants and not once did I feel scruffy or unkempt.
He had scruffy short, possibly cropped, brown hair with sideburns running down past his ears.
He's dressed in scruffy jeans and a faded biker jacket, talking in quiet, understated tones.
Her boyfirned is lookin scruffy but who cares who all do now and then lol. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Britney Spears & Jason Trawick Sneak Off To Santa Barbara, CA
It was a scruffy old game. Times, Sunday Times
Having arrived at 9am from Aberdeen, the pair were clad more as mad hatters tea party than scruffy gig chic.
He and his scruffy band of followers held that life should be conducted in accordance with nature to the point of performing bodily functions in public like dogs hence the term cynic, from the Greek word for dog. Alexander the Great
JAKE SULLY a scarred and scruffy combat vet sitting in a beat up carbon - fiber wheelchair.
I like the idea of a cute but scruffy dog. Times, Sunday Times
Meursault is repulsed by Raymond's scruffy appearance.
As a music journalist in scruffy digs by Victoria station he was asked by an American producer to suggest some local bands to supply soundtrack music for a movie.
In scruffy streets great voices echo. Times, Sunday Times
Scruffy and fluffy, these tawny frogmouth chicks are part of six hatched in 2008 and 2009 through a cooperative program of SeaWorld and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. ZooBorns
In one corner, a scruffy individual was toasting a flat loaf over an open brazier. THE LONELY SEA
It is a plain, undolled-up place, with vast puddles and scruffy hats and tack piled up in a Portakabin, and not a caffe latte in sight. Horse riding in Ashdown Forest
Now seven months old, Sam is a very healthy and robust dog, showing that even the most scruffy and mangy animal can be reclaimed and rehabilitated.
His face looks rugged, hair out of place, and his once-scruffy face now sports a full beard.
He's dressed in scruffy jeans and a faded biker jacket, talking in quiet, understated tones.
We moved close to an extremely scruffy exotic food mart where birds flew around helping themselves to the bulk bins of bulgur and excreting onto the green peppers.
He peers out from under his scruffy, unkempt hair with a slackjawed, apprehensive expression.
Despite her scruffy clothes, there was an air of sophistication about her.
The weather started out grey and chill but has warmed steadily until, today, I resorted to wearing a pair of scruffy old shorts around the house and garden.
Whole Wide World is one of the first songs a bunch of scruffy young teenage no-marks ever played in public, down in Lower Salthill.
I like the idea of a cute but scruffy dog. Times, Sunday Times
His model aircraft were usually scruffy constructions of paper and balsa wood and far from aerodynamically efficient.
Some spruce up scruffy gardens while owners are out. The Sun
I like the idea of a cute but scruffy dog. Times, Sunday Times
A scruffy soldier takes the stage, hired to appear by the oleaginous host.
The gunman was described as scruffy-looking and fled on foot after the attack, possibly with another man, he said. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
Laden with a mismatched stack of old leather-bound books, the pretty coed rounded an aisle and nearly collided with a scruffy looking male.
The whole head is fluffed up and gently back-combed, so that it looks scruffy and unkempt.
One had blond hair and was scruffy, with a blue top and jeans, while the other wore a dark blue top.
In reality we are looking at a bare stage, and the diva is a scruffy young man who minutes before was six other characters. Times, Sunday Times
Though Anthony had a scruffy look, with his unshaved face, he also had a twinkle in his eyes that made almost everyone who knew him think twice on pulling a prank on him.
His face was scruffy, as if he hadn't shaved in days.
The strange thing is, after the exam incident, I turned into this lazy, scruffy headcase.
Eyes bursting open, she saw an unshaven, scruffy face.
He had discoloured teeth and was wearing a scruffy tweed jacket with leather patches on the elbows and a hand-knitted grey waistcoat. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
It has the appealing scruffy buzz of a university town, but there is no university, and hence no students puking into traffic cones.
In reply to this characterization of contemporary Nashville country music, a major commercial country promoter says that the scruffy alternative artists just don't have the talent or the drive to make it in commercial country music.
Uncle Sam is portrayed as scruffy, mean and bitter.
If the jeans were baggy and scruffy, the whole outfit would be unbalanced.
They all looked disheveled with dirty clothing and most of them had scruffy beards and scraggly hair.
A scruffy beard covered his face, making him look older than he was.
You can't go to a job interview looking so scruffy!
A projection screen flickers into life and Hope Of The States shamble onstage in that endearingly scruffy way that seems rather at odds with their borderline-highbrow music.
On Friday morning they gathered on a scruffy beach in Libreville, sang and laid flowers in the water for their compatriots who had died in 1993, shortly after taking off from the Gabonese capital for a World Cup qualifier in Senegal. Zambia 0-0 Ivory Coast (7-8 on pens) | Africa Cup of Nations final report
It depicts the kalanoro, a "short, three-toed, bipedal, water-dwelling, mean, scruffy-hair hominoid" apparently known to tribes in Madagascar. Boing Boing
Born in 1912, Turing was a shy, scruffy young man, but a gifted mathematician and scientist.
Almost immediately, a scruffy youth approached me, his unkempt appearance readily identifying him as a candyman.
Photographs show him wearing the scruffy T-shirt and jeans that were the student's uniform of the time.
Joshua David has described the atmosphere he and his co-founder envisioned as "less like a park and more like a scruffy wilderness," but the results will appear unruly only to those who still think of public gardens as requiring Victorian carpet bedding — yellow begonias and red pelargonium geometrically composed and obsessively mulched. Up in the Park
My winter coat is too warm for this time of year and my jeans jacket is too scruffy for work.
Surveys put the rotund, scruffy and gray-haired Mujica -- better known in Uruguay, population 3.3 million, by his nickname "Pepe" -- well ahead of his rivals and within striking distance of an outright win on Sunday. Raw Story
Here he let his hair grow longer and his clothes grow scruffy. Hemingway in Paris - Parisian walks for the literary traveller
She was used to looking at his scruffy suits and worn-out shoes. YELLOW BIRD
I felt ashamed to let anyone come to the flat because it was filthy, smelly and scruffy.
It's all about contrasts and contradictions - the smart and the scruffy, the rough and the smooth.
Wow, who's the scruffy old mountain man?
And the sites have become scruffy wasteland. The Sun
Covered in dirt, blood, scruffy from several days worth of beard, eyes sunken and hollow; he looked like a different man.
He looked scruffy with an unshaven face and red, watery eyes.
He was 5ft 8in and thin, with greasy, untidy black hair, wearing tinted glasses and had a scruffy appearance.
Some spruce up scruffy gardens while owners are out. The Sun
With his scruffy blond hair hidden inside a hoodie, he admitted during our interview in 2013 that he had no medical or scientific training. Times, Sunday Times
She was wearing a scruffy pair of jeans.
Despite her scruffy clothes, there was an air of sophistication about her.
A couple lockers down was a boy, about 5'5, with scruffy brown hair, wearing rumpled blue jeans and a wrinkly white t-shirt, looking as though he'd just fallen out of bed.
I slid onto a chair next to his and pushed the glass nearer to him with two paracetamol tablets and trickled my fingers through his scruffy hair playfully.
Peter Frechette plays Peter as emerging into manhood from a scruffy, boyish petulance.
Unshaven, scruffy, with greasy brown hair, he slouches in a woollen ski hat, totally self-absorbed.
Scrawny and pale, with a mop of scruffy black hair and watery grey eyes, he looked sickly and weak.
The whole head is fluffed up and gently back-combed, so that it looks scruffy and unkempt.
The aim is to bring scruffy, disused areas of land - including a disused tip, a former power station and a derelict canal - back into community use.
Francona, who could have taken a conservative stance against his players' scraggly hair and scruffy beards, instead embraced his team's approach.
Old silver heels have been abandoned under a work table in favor of scruffy penny loafers.
Don't just pull on your beer-stained jeans and set your scruffy mug on "dour" - show some pizzazz, some pep. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
He was ‘scruffy’, wearing a dark jacket, grey fleece, hat and khaki trousers.
He pulls his curly locks back into a bushy ponytail and wears a somewhat scruffy goatee.
Teachers who wear casual or scruffy clothes to school are to face criticism in school inspectors' reports from next month. Times, Sunday Times
He wore a mask that had a big red scar down the side of his face with a scruffy beard painted on it.
WITH his beer belly, mullet and dodgy tattoo, he looked like any old scruffy village cricketer taking the field. The Sun
A scruffy folder, faintly typed and badly eaten by mice, was discovered in the bottom drawer of an ancient roll-top desk in a house on Lake Chapala. Dane Chandos Books
His black, horn-rimmed glasses front his grinning, elfish face with a small, scruffy goatee.
These are the scruffy, barefoot, rag-tag, tatty little street urchins of the night that come out of their hiding spots once downtown Rangoon is deserted.
Zach was decked out in the same scruffy jeans he'd been wearing in the video.
He was white, around 5ft 9in, stocky and muscular, with a crew-cut style haircut and he looked scruffy.
If you are lucky, you might find something scruffy for about 700,000. Times, Sunday Times
The old town around the splendid natural harbour is picturesque enough in a scruffy way. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
Tolman was not close to Hampton, he said, whom he described as a scruffy guy who came and went in Whittier for about 20 years. News on Anchorage Press
The man, described as scruffy and unkempt by passengers, was sitting in the rear of United Airlines Flight Lead Stories from AOL
You can't go to a job interview looking so scruffy!
He was looking down, he was scruffy, he had dirty jeans and he was not on this planet.
A bevy of white-shirted staff hovered around us, thrusting into our hands rather scruffy menus, more suited to the takeaway side of the business than the restaurant.
With his scruffy blond hair hidden inside a hoodie, he admitted during our interview in 2013 that he had no medical or scientific training. Times, Sunday Times
Nobody minds if you bring the bambini along or your shoes are scruffy - there may be grand hotels but there are plenty of inexpensive pensioni as well.
I own several scruffy-looking fleece tops that make me feel cheap and shabby whenever I wear them, so I was on the lookout for warm and slinky knitwear to help bring out my inner fabulousness.
Uncared-for heathers get so scruffy. Times, Sunday Times
Despite her scruffy clothes, there was an air of sophistication about her.
I've only seen a scruffy servant girl.
Misanthropic and eremitic, He was scruffy, ill-mannered, unemployable, and only went out after dark. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
There were scruffy coal barges with wheelhouses seamed with rust and blistered with old paint. THE LAST TEMPTATION
A scruffy, hand-delivered envelope had been placed on the flimsy wicker post-table in the communal entrance hall. THE CALLIGRAPHER
In reality I can be totally scruffy and uninterested in style. Times, Sunday Times
Made from the bendiest, softest leather I can imagine these lovely shoes waiting for me to slip my tired feet into at the end of a long day, for a laid-back look that's far from scruffy. Shoewawa
a surge of ragged scruffy children
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And then he glanced at his own almost crumpled gray shirt and the plain scruffy jeans.
I hate the shaggy, unshorn look he has going on now; I like my men clean-cut for the most part, but some can get away with the scruffy look, or the long hair…
The Oscar winning actor went virtually unnoticed as he walked about with his burly minders in toe, as he looked scruffy, bloated, and unshaven.
The fledgling crouched in the center of the strange clearing, on the scruffy herbage that grew amid the dirt and stones.
It is a plain, undolled-up place, with vast puddles and scruffy hats and tack piled up in a Portakabin, and not a caffe latte in sight. Horse riding in Ashdown Forest
“At one point, it was all French bistro and yellow washes and tin ceilings,” said Johnny (as he prefers to be called), 44, wearing jeans, a scruffy thermal shirt, and a mischievous smile hidden by graying facial hair. Gaslight This! Restaurants Clamor for Faux-Retro Décor
The whole head is fluffed up and gently back-combed, so that it looks scruffy and unkempt.
Irate motorists who haven't read the highway code I can deal with, being scruffy because my jacket is already fraying at the edges is another matter.
The headlights stagelit him standing there, a scruffy, whiskery, old man all alone in the doorway, talking to himself.
She was wearing a scruffy pair of jeans.
Zach was decked out in the same scruffy jeans he'd been wearing in the video.
Scruffy and unsmiling, the children are pictured gathering in a York backstreet slum in 1900, with plaster peeling from the surrounding brick walls and not a tree or blade of grass in sight.
Investment bankers spend millions on artists' lofts in scruffy, but fashionable parts of town.
In it she played Gracie Hart, a scruffy FBI agent, who went undercover at a Miss United States beauty pageant.
His scruffy appearance does not reflect his character.
Getting old: More and more £5 notes are getting ripped and scruffy, which is partly blamed on the lack of £5 cash dispensers Home | Mail Online
Its runways made a distinctive pattern, a slanting cross, as if some one had slammed a rubber stamp on the scruffy countryside.
He had a brief glimpse of a scruffy-looking guy with ratty hair and even rattier coat. Masked
She could still see the eerie face behind her lids: the scruffy, black beard and dark, haunting eyes.
Summer and winter jasmines are both scruffy, tangly beasts. Times, Sunday Times
The film has rough edges to go with its scruffy surroundings, but most of it works and you can see the influence of indie godfather John Sayles, for whom Kusama has worked as an assistant.
Their leaking backpacks trailed sleeping bags and blankets, and one had a scruffy dog.

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