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Recent Examples of scruffy How did a scruffy comedy about five of TV’s all-time-worst human beings last this long and do so well? Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2025 Both pups have one floppy ear and a scruffy coat that begs to be cuddled. Kelli Bender, People.com, 20 June 2025 On a sunny April afternoon in Seattle, around 40 activists gathered at the Pine Box, a beer and pizza bar in the sometimes scruffy Capitol Hill neighborhood. Aarian Marshall, Wired News, 16 June 2025 In a thoroughly awful game, Spurs played poorly but managed to just about sneak past Manchester United with an incredibly scruffy goal. Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for scruffy
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Adjective
  • Next to a dormant pumpkin farm, the factory, which had once made tubing for hoses, had burned in the nineties; all that remained were four dilapidated and grafittied walls.
    Megan Cummins August 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The demolition of the jail this year opened the door to redeveloping the dilapidated building.
    Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • Close the Loop Following through on commitments is the simplest and yet shockingly most neglected way to earn long-term trust.
    Serenity Gibbons, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
  • But its location in the neglected and overgrown space remains a mystery.
    Laura L. Davis, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025

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“Scruffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scruffy. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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