scruffier; scruffiest
Examples of scruffy in a Sentence
The neighborhood is full of dilapidated houses with scruffy backyards.
dressed in scruffy old clothes to clean out the garage
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The snow is often just beginning to melt, and scruffy yellow patches of grass appear like small, hairy scabs.
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Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
Gilroy’s version was an origin story tracing the making of a revolutionary, the education of Cassian Andor as a scruffy, reluctant malcontent who is radicalized into a rebel leader.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2025
But Warren’s career isn’t just another story of a scruffy singer-songwriter’s stock skyrocketing proportionately to national and global grief and stress.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 21 July 2025
He is shorn of his rakish mustache, and a scruffy isthmus sprouts at the crown of his receding hairline.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
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Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
Gilroy’s version was an origin story tracing the making of a revolutionary, the education of Cassian Andor as a scruffy, reluctant malcontent who is radicalized into a rebel leader.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2025
But Warren’s career isn’t just another story of a scruffy singer-songwriter’s stock skyrocketing proportionately to national and global grief and stress.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 21 July 2025
He is shorn of his rakish mustache, and a scruffy isthmus sprouts at the crown of his receding hairline.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for scruffy
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“Scruffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scruffy. Accessed 24 Aug. 2025.
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