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Meanings of scraggy in английском

Being very thin.

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Having a sharply uneven surface or outline.

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Usage of scraggy in английском
1
A short, scraggy white beard covered the lower part of the face.
The Old Wives' Tale
2
Over the uneven scraggy promontory, blinded by the fierce sunlight, Annadoah staggered.
The Eternal Maiden
3
You're lucky you didn't get your scraggy ass blown to kingdom come.
The stand
4
Presently they saw a house smoking under a scraggy clump of eucalyptus.
The Eternal City
5
His scraggy throat was adorned with a black neckerchief like a boot-lace.
The Path of the King
6
This was succeeded by highlands, undulating, stony, and covered with scraggy trees.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi...
7
That scraggy young woman, Charlie Fairstairs, is to be there of course.
Can You Forgive Her?
8
The only animals in evidence were scraggy crows circling the sky.
The Lost Sisterhood
9
The thatch was getting scraggy over the gables and sagging at the back.
Waysiders, Stories of Connacht
10
Some scraggy myrtles stood in broken pots, and nettles flourished in a corner.
Greenmantle
11
Two pounds of the scraggy part of a neck of mutton.
Miss Parloa's New Cook Book
12
We camped in a boggy hollow on a bluff among scraggy, usnea-bearded spruces.
Travels in Alaska
13
Window boxes are as plentiful as ever, but the geraniums are rather scraggy.
The new yorker
14
He lifted his bony hand and gave a tug at his scraggy beard.
The Voice of the People
15
They were very blue and deeply set under rather scraggy brows.
The Californians
16
I'm in the very devil of a mess but I'll cheat scraggy-neck yet.
The Yeoman Adventurer
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