scruffier; scruffiest
Examples of scruffy in a Sentence
The neighborhood is full of dilapidated houses with scruffy backyards.
dressed in scruffy old clothes to clean out the garage
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He's had long hair, short hair, a scruffy beard, a short beard, and just about everything in between.
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Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
The key to locating her bro is in the Exclusion Zone, and Michelle finds a way in courtesy of scruffy ex-soldier Keats (Pratt), a black marketeer who smuggles kitschy lunchboxes and vintage firearms out of there and to his customers.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025
In addition to his new passion for watches, other luxury flairs are finding their way into the once scruffy CEO’s wardrobe.
—Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2025
Celebrities buying into scruffy teams became something of a headline when Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds acquired the lower-tier Welsh football team in Wrexham and proceeded to bring some rizz to it; their moves of course also became the subject of the FX show Welcome to Wrexham.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2025
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Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
The key to locating her bro is in the Exclusion Zone, and Michelle finds a way in courtesy of scruffy ex-soldier Keats (Pratt), a black marketeer who smuggles kitschy lunchboxes and vintage firearms out of there and to his customers.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025
In addition to his new passion for watches, other luxury flairs are finding their way into the once scruffy CEO’s wardrobe.
—Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2025
Celebrities buying into scruffy teams became something of a headline when Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds acquired the lower-tier Welsh football team in Wrexham and proceeded to bring some rizz to it; their moves of course also became the subject of the FX show Welcome to Wrexham.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2025
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“Scruffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scruffy. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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