scruffier; scruffiest
Examples of scruffy in a Sentence
The neighborhood is full of dilapidated houses with scruffy backyards.
dressed in scruffy old clothes to clean out the garage
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There’s this scruffy guy sitting quietly on a beach chair and someone says, there’s Jack Black.
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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 7 Apr. 2025
Arsene Wenger’s early success in north London had been built on the pace and power of Vieira, Emmanuel Petit and Gilberto Silva, but when a scruffy 16-year-old with a dodgy mullet and a baggy shirt arrived from Barcelona, a new era began.
—The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
Bumped and bustled on scruffy buses, crowded trains and narrow rickshaws.
—Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
The boat departs from a scruffy port called Lavrion, about an hour from downtown in a taxi.
—Rachel Howard, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2025
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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 7 Apr. 2025
Arsene Wenger’s early success in north London had been built on the pace and power of Vieira, Emmanuel Petit and Gilberto Silva, but when a scruffy 16-year-old with a dodgy mullet and a baggy shirt arrived from Barcelona, a new era began.
—The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
Bumped and bustled on scruffy buses, crowded trains and narrow rickshaws.
—Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
The boat departs from a scruffy port called Lavrion, about an hour from downtown in a taxi.
—Rachel Howard, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for scruffy
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“Scruffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scruffy. Accessed 10 May. 2025.
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