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scraggly

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈskɹæɡ(ə)li/Part of speech adjectiveSorted acgglrsyStarts with SEnds with Y0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. being very thin

Word origin

As if from a verb *scraggle (in turn from scrag). Equivalent to scrag + -le + -ly.

Used in a sentence

  • The sunburn of my face, what little of it could be seen through a scraggly growth of beard, had faded to a sickly yellow.
  • Faintly from the street scraggly children's voices singing a yule song. Miss Tomson going to the window. "Hey come here Mr Smith look at this, isn't that sweet, group of urchins, they're singing."
  • What he painted was scenes of the Old West, cowboys and Indians, cattle and horses. Pictures scraggly with sagebrush.

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