scraggy

IPA: skrˈægi

Examples of "scraggy" in Sentences

One of them is about 6ft, of medium build with shoulder length 'scraggy' hair.
Most of the captives were of the appearances denominated "scraggy" or "knotty."
The scraggy branches of a tree in the foreground run out at us as if they would scratch our eyes out.
He then pointed to a scraggy camelthorn tree about one hundred yards away and said, You will live under that tree.
She was tall for her fourteen years, and very slender – "scraggy," Jim was wont to say, with the cheerful frankness of brothers.
Joe's moustache does look a bit like feathers, he has a long scraggy neck, an understanding of the forest, and a tentative, birdlike walk.
Moding Ngolapus tightens a string round its scraggy neck, while his friend takes a roughly made bow, crouches and aims a blunt arrow from about 3ft away.
But the country, surely, will embrace him, scraggy beard and scowl and whinge and all, without reservation if he cuts 75 years of a dire past adrift and wins the men's singles title.
The soil was barren, scarcely affording pasture for a few miserable cows, and oatmeal for its inhabitants, which consisted of five persons, whose gaunt and scraggy limbs gave tokens of their miserable fare.