scruffier; scruffiest
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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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One evening in the summer of 2022, in Berlin’s scruffy Görlitzer Park, Angel and her close friend and colleague Joshua Leifer spoke of the inevitability of escalation in Israel-Palestine.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
Smith, whose scruffy unruliness seemed more manageable, appeared to be the adult who might take Vice to new heights, building out a television network and nightly newscast and attracting funding from Disney and A&E, among others.
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
Why the East Village In fact, this refined eatery is located on 1st Avenue and 2nd Street, near busy Houston Street, in a scruffy area of the East Village, not tony Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side.
—Gary Stern, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
SpaceX, Boeing’s competitor, which has been ferrying astronauts to and from the space station for the past four years—no longer a scruffy start-up but a trusted government partner—will bring the astronauts home instead, in February of next year.
—Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2024
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
Smith, whose scruffy unruliness seemed more manageable, appeared to be the adult who might take Vice to new heights, building out a television network and nightly newscast and attracting funding from Disney and A&E, among others.
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
Why the East Village In fact, this refined eatery is located on 1st Avenue and 2nd Street, near busy Houston Street, in a scruffy area of the East Village, not tony Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side.
—Gary Stern, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
SpaceX, Boeing’s competitor, which has been ferrying astronauts to and from the space station for the past four years—no longer a scruffy start-up but a trusted government partner—will bring the astronauts home instead, in February of next year.
—Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2024
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“Scruffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scruffy. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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