scrabbly

IPA: skrˈæbʌɫi

Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.
Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.
Scribbly.
Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.
Of poor quality; poorly maintained.
Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.
Stunted.
Sparse and scraggly.
Impoverished, hardscrabble
Rough, poor and uncultured.
Having a rough texture; scratchy.
Characterized by unusual letters (those that have a high score in the game Scrabble)

Examples of "scrabbly" in Sentences

Around the huts are scrabbly vegetable gardens, and patches of corn fields, most of them picked clean.
I shudder to think how much money has been wasted trying to grow grass on those poor scrabbly squares of dirt.
Every bit of land is tilled and farmed, even the scrabbly, rocky hillsides and the narrow strips of grass along the highway.
And in our two-hour drive from the airport, he was amazed by the scrabbly red Southwestern landscape, so different from the green and trees we had at home in Brooklyn; he asked me the name of every piece of brush he could see.
BERTINELLI: Well, yeah because it was on the road and we were listening in the dressing room and I could hear Ed talking and if you ` ve ever met my husband or ex-husband, he has a scrabbly voice, and it sounds like he ` s in the mafia.
The group plays gritty, scrabbly free improv of the kind popular throughout European post-jazz circles in the 70s, all scrapes and rattles and occasional mournful tones from Jean's flute, his signature instrument but one he mostly leaves aside here in favor of various bowed instruments.