noun
definition
An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that intelligence is too complicated (or computationally intractable) to be solved with the sorts of homogeneous system favoured by the "neats".
adjective
definition
Untidy in appearance.
example
A scruffy little dog came scampering down the road.
definition
Scurfy.
Examples of scruffy in a Sentence
A scruffy old drunkard comes to the hospital looking for his son.
His hair was tied back, his jaw and chin scruffy from a couple days' growth of hair.
I tend to leave it be and it ends up looking a bit scruffy.
Scruffy was meowing at the kitchen door.
We know ' cause we're quite scruffy ourselves!
He would have a low opinion of my scruffy hair.
He selected a brown suit with blue pinstripes, scruffy shirt and tie, brown trousers and white plimsolls.
Do n't go overboard, but do n't turn up on your date in scruffy jeans and T-shirt either.
Some very scruffy travelers were enjoying a beer in the last of the afternoon sun.
Attend our seminar Prepare for the Fair here at the Careers Service Dress can be formal or smart casual - not scruffy!
As it was when bought, very dirty and scruffy, here shown with X10 eyepiece and manual stage.
A scruffy, antisocial misfit, she's been convicted of murder and sentenced to die.
How is it going with Scruffy?
How are things going between you and scruffy?
Speaking of Scruffy, have you seen him lately?
Scruffy isn't a Tom cat.
The Deans hid out in their quarters, not anxious for their scruffy attire to telegraph their clandestine destination.
A rather scruffy looking Wesley Kerr then sniffed his was a location " far too grand to be on any Monopoly board.
To distinguish them apart in the morning sleep haze, I threaded white laces into the scruffy pair.
The third member of the team is their Grandad, an indolent, scruffy man constantly moaning about his lot in life.
The scruffy little mongrel in the pet shop window has a grand ambition - to be a guard dog.
After all, Muff the Bunny nestles snugly among the silk pillows, and she looks nearly as scruffy as he does.
His clothes are, if anything, slightly scruffy.
I rarely got any and when I did they were usually too scruffy to return to the shelves.
The reason for going for the quality option is mostly for comfort, but also because cheaper clothes can look scruffy very quickly.
They were both quite scruffy in appearance - perhaps to blend in with the assumed appearance of shoplifters.
Back then, it was basic, down-to-earth photographs, taken in scruffy clothes or backstage changing rooms.
He said one man was smartly dressed in a blue suit, and the other was of a scruffy appearance.
We know ' cause we 're quite scruffy ourselves !
Attend our seminar Prepare for the Fair here at the Careers Service Dress can be formal or smart casual - not scruffy !
The Welsh's coat does need routine attention to keep it from looking scruffy.
His laid-back men's hair cut is groomed to perfection, yet there's still an air of scruffy charm to it.
Ties are one accessory Virgo guys generally love to wear, and you'll rarely find this fellow in scruffy shoes.
And heroes and heroines are suitably heroic-looking, if sometimes necessarily scruffy.
I also read in a newspaper article review of Star Wars Episode I that Qui-Gon looked scruffy.
She watched from the family room window as he wolfed the food - a habit that had prompted Cade to dub him Scruffy.
Even Scruffy seemed to acknowledge its arrival, allowing Cynthia to remain on the porch when he ate the table scraps.
He was wearing scruffy blue jeans and a blue jacket.
Dogs are susceptible to picking up internal parasites that can rob them of their nutrition, leaving them underweight and scruffy in appearance.
Very damaged hair may look scruffy with a medium length, while layers or bangs may be necessary to add volume to fine hair.
We have a lot of left-overs and Scruffy is getting ridiculously fat.
So, how's scruffy doing?
I'd better put it back before Scruffy comes looking for it.
Scruffy limped to the bowl and she kneeled beside him.