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Adjective
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There’s lots of Alcantara and lovely leather throughout, but scratchy plastics could be felt low on the doors and under the dash.—
Matthew MacConnell,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025 -
There were only a few students and their sound was still a bit squeaky and scratchy.—
Mará Rose Williams
July 6,
Kansas City Star,
6 July 2025
Adjective
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In Berlin, parks are usually just some trees, scraggly wild grass, and rugged natural paths mixed in with a monument or statue here and there and several walls scattered with graffiti.—
Emily Manthei,
Travel + Leisure,
19 July 2025
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Bread crumbs • Props to the hair, makeup, and costuming departments for differentiating Kiki’s Simone from pre-Michaela Simone, who showed up to the island with a scraggly ponytail, a gray button-down, uneven skin, and scrawled tattoos.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
Adjective
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The harsh reality is this: not all cell phone forensic extractions are created equal, and the most important evidence for trucking cases on the smartphone will be gone in days or weeks.—
Lars Daniel,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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Late-night talk shows across the board are facing the harsh reality that declines in ad revenue can’t make up for burgeoning production costs.—
Liam Reilly,
CNN Money,
22 July 2025
Adjective
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Those garments included curvaceous jackets with jodhpurs and slender gowns cut from both light-absorbing velvet and light reflecting satin. At Chanel, meanwhile, the dark hue was used for military suits in nubby tweeds.—
Ari Stark,
Footwear News,
14 July 2025
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Drawbacks of linen Linen’s slightly nubby, rougher texture may be perfect to one person and totally sandpapery to another.—
Kathleen Felton,
SELF,
19 Nov. 2024
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“Sandpapery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sandpapery. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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