adjective

• 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)