scraggly in English

adjective
1
(of a person or animal) thin and bony.
synonyms:scrawnythinas thin as a rakeskinnyskin-and-bonesgauntbonyangulargawkyrawboned

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1. It's so... scraggly, so vile.

2. Not a bit of him scraggly or scrawny

3. He was very uptight about his daughter's scraggly - looking boyfriends.

4. Rip rubbed his chin, and noticed that he had a long, scraggly beard.

5. There were some scraggly bushes, but that was all.

6. There are singles, pairs, and scraggly groups of up to a dozen coming from various directions.

7. 28 These and other shrubs were interspersed with small, scraggly larch and black spruce trees.

8. I gave Minnie a good bath and fluffed up what was left of her scraggly hair.

9. He sat up, rubbed his hand through his scraggly hair, and asked, "Computer, what's the date?"

10. These and other shrubs were interspersed with small, scraggly larch and black spruce trees.

11. The bear had dark eyes, and its scraggly brown fur was dotted with patches of gray.

12. The scraggly relative making its home in my father's backyard pales in comparison, but its symbolic value is far greater.

13. He was ragged but he had an air of dignity around him. His scraggly blond beard keep more than his face warm.

14. This odd mix of intensity and aloofness, combined with his shoulder-length hair and scraggly beard, gave him the aura of a crazed shaman.

15. We crossed Main Street and went into a little park, sat on a wooden bench under a huge scraggly tree.

16. Then I went to college, and my sorority sisters gave me a hard time about my scraggly nubs when it was time for rush.

17. M ore than three centuries ago, two scraggly French explorers "discovered" the Illinois country and the Native Americans who had lived there since prehistoric times.

18. There stood the least attractive person I had ever met—so thin; scraggly, unkempt hair; round-shouldered; head bowed looking at the floor.

19. The stamp is stuck on at an odd angle (but still stuck after all this time!) and he stares down at the scraggly lines of a familiar address.

20. With a scraggly beard and long tousled hair, he used bright scraps of fabric as a belt and wore a grubby sheepskin-lined overcoat over a faux leather jacket.

21. The grass pushing up on my seat, the scraggly thistle stem rubbing my shirt, the brown-breasted swallow swooping downhill: they are a single thing stretching out in many directions.