[
UK
/stɹˈæɡli/
]
ADJECTIVE
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spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly
straggly hair
straggling branches
sprawling handwriting -
growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly
straggly ivy
How To Use straggly In A Sentence
- His straggly, thinning hair flaps in the wind, as does his worn, long white coat.
- He started appearing in public wearing a uniform: straggly beard, denims and woolly hat.
- Her long fair hair was knotted and straggly.
- He may be a little world-weary, but behind the half-beard and the straggly locks there's the faintest trace of a smile.
- I admit he has dreadful teeth, is skinny as hell and well fulfills the term ‘geek’ with his straggly hair.
- Tinker, a career criminal, has spent much of his life in prison; he's pot-bellied, balding with straggly brown hair, and has a thick handlebar moustache.
- Fog darkened the wood and hung over the pond, turning the straggly trees near the shore into ghostly figures. Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
- His thinning white hair was straggly on his skull, his worn Dallas Cowboys jacket in need of replacing, his jeans hanging loose on his body, his feet clad in old sneakers. I’ll Walk Alone
- I sit in the only empty chair on the front row next to a very pale man with long straggly gray hair who has a persistent dry cough and wears sandals with thin black socks.
- The straggly, scrawny kid who grabs a guitar in hopes of finally getting some kind of attention from the girls other than sneers and spitballs is no more.