Adjective (2)
she was a scrappy girl despite—or, perhaps, because of—her small size
a pair of scrappy movie critics who can never agree on anything
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Adjective
The album is at once scrappy and painstakingly produced.—Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 14 July 2024 She was named the District 3-6A MVP and set a high standard within Boswell basketball with energetic, scrappy play.—Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 July 2024 Your characters are scrappy, inventive, creative and self-confident.—Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024 The company surged more than 1,700% during one stretch in January 2021, and the stock’s stratospheric rise appeared to pit scrappy individual investors against sophisticated hedge funds that were heavily shorting the troubled mall retailer.—Jason Ma, Fortune, 1 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for scrappy
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