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Recent Examples of scraggly Something really touched me watching the video of a scraggly man on the treadmill and a photograph of an old lady sitting on a grand chair grinning from ear to ear. Niha Masih, Washington Post, 18 July 2022 For the red seaweed Gracilaria gracilis, which grows in scraggly clumps, this is a particular problem. Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 28 July 2022 O’Neal pulled off the road next to some open land studded with scraggly bushes. Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022 By the time the school day began, a scraggly line of kids and their parents stretched out the door, down the hallway, and outside into the sunshine. Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2021 See All Example Sentences for scraggly
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Adjective
  • Sandwiched between the ocean and the Oregon Coast Range, U.S. Route 101 traces the state’s entire coastline, with wide beaches and jagged sea stacks on one side of the road and thickets of evergreen forest on the other.
    Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 17 June 2025
  • While icebergs and rocky shorelines dominate the Antarctic coastline that cruise ships navigate, the heart of the continent is another world, one of shimmering blue ice tunnels and crevasses, jagged mountain peaks, and vast moonscapes.
    Chloe Berge, Outside Online, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • An unkempt lawn with ragged edges signals a lack of care to all who pass it by.
    Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2025
  • In the clip, the small dog scuttles into the room clutching his ragged bear, which has a hole that has caused its stuffing to spill out.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025

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“Scraggly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scraggly. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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