as in jagged
having an uneven edge or outline
a scraggly little tree
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Recent Examples of scraggly
With a long, scraggly hairdo and beard, Frost's Hagrid wore corduroy pants and a few layers of jackets under a large coat.
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Jack Smart, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
His scraggly beard seems grown to be wrenched.
—Roy Scranton
august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
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
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
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Jack Smart, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
His scraggly beard seems grown to be wrenched.
—Roy Scranton
august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scraggly
Adjective
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Rose now realizes the smeared, dark, jagged edges are an abstract human.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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All the shadows and jagged angles evoke German Expressionism, distorting Ronnie’s confrontation into something both surreal and terrifyingly recognizable.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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My breath is nervous and ragged but my will determined.—
Vanita Salisbury,
AFAR Media,
6 Nov. 2025
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The result is a ragged primal scream of a film — not a cry for help, but rather, a bellow of maternal rage.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Scraggly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scraggly. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.
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