as in shabbily
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Recent Examples of scruffily
Old photographs show them on windblown mountain peaks, looking scruffily handsome and nearly indistinguishable.
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Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scruffily
shabbily
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Her fury at Helios employees being treated so shabbily is matched only by her disbelief at Ger and his crew’s recklessness in allowing the consoles monitoring and controlling all of Happy Valley’s life-support systems and communications with the Titan mission unstaffed.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
1 May 2026
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“Scruffily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scruffily. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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