adjective
definition
Rough and irregular; jagged.
definition
Lean or thin, scrawny.
Examples of scraggy in a Sentence
He'd forgotten the scraggy thing while Cynthia was away.
Your cheeks are all sunk and your color's all gone, Your neck's very scraggy, still you're getting on.
Neither was me taking class A's in the toilets with your frankly quite scraggy future sister-in-law.
Some of them are as light-skinned as Europeans, tall, robust, thin-lipped, straight-nosed, with straight black hair; others are shorter and darker in complexion, with round heads, long noses, thick lips, and scraggy limbs, indicating perhaps the commingling of more than one Semitic people.
In the latter form old trees, the summer pruning of which has been neglected, are apt to acquire an undue projection from the wall and become scraggy, to avoid which a portion of the old spurs should be cut out annually.
She was not nicely rounded but had a thin scraggy neck and distinct hips, sure signs of being underweight.
Your cheeks are all sunk and your color 's all gone, Your neck 's very scraggy, still you 're getting on.
The western half of these plains has only a few trees along the watercourses and some scraggy bushes of oak, juniper and cedar in the more hilly sections.
In a few hollows which are reached by moisture the trees of the desert find support, the algarrobo (Prosopis horrida), a low tree of very scraggy growth, the vichaya (Capparis crotonoides), and the zapote del perro (Colicodendrum scabridum), mere shrubs.
She forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and drawing him down put her arm round his thin, scraggy neck.
A thousand times during that half-hour Rostov cast eager and restless glances over the edge of the wood, with the two scraggy oaks rising above the aspen undergrowth and the gully with its water-worn side and "Uncle's" cap just visible above the bush on his right.