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Synonyms & Antonyms of scruffy
showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect
- dressed in scruffy old clothes to clean out the garage
Synonyms for scruffy
- beat-up,
- bombed-out,
- dilapidated,
- dog-eared,
- down-at-the-heels
- (or down-at-heel also down-at-the-heel or down-at-heels),
- dumpy,
- grungy,
- mangy,
- mean,
- miserable,
- moth-eaten,
- neglected,
- ratty,
- run-down,
- scrubby,
- seedy,
- shabby,
- sleazy,
- tacky,
- tatterdemalion,
- tatty,
- threadbare,
- timeworn,
- tumbledown
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“Scruffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scruffy. Accessed 25 Jan. 2022.
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The first known use of scruffy was in 1871
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