Meaning & use
scraggly
Irregular, unkempt, or growing in a thin, untidy way.
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A scraggly beard covered his chin after weeks without shaving.
Scraggly weeds pushed up through the cracks in the old sidewalk.
A note on using this word
Informal and mildly negative, often describing hair, plants, or anything that looks thin and untidy.
Words with a similar meaning
unkemptstragglyshaggy
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