scraggly
/ˈskɹæɡ(ə)li/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.12 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "She would be so happy . . . that she wouldn't notice the spelling or the scraggly writing."
- ""I have no idea," the young woman said, checking over the scraggly illegible signature the mystery woman had left her in her autograph book."
- "I climbed to a small ridge under a fiercely blazing sun and sat down under a scraggly gum tree to try and work out my bearings."