scroungy

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Recent Examples of scroungy The mesh fabric adds a bit of sexiness and fun to your average lounge bra—which, in my drawers, can often err on the scroungy side—and provides the perfect pick-me-up when the girls need a little bit of a lift. Lily Wohlner, womenshealthmag.com, 9 May 2023 That meant giving the men in that environment scroungy beards and longer sideburns to reflect the era. Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 June 2022 But nobody in particular can be identified except some members of the scroungy New Orleans-Dallas-Galveston demimonde. Avi Selk, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scroungy
Adjective
  • While raising four boys and juggling a career, her earliest and signature save was Larimer Square, which in the mid-1960s was considered a scruffy row of rowdy bars best trimmed with a bulldozer.
    Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2025
  • If Hobbes’ quote is generally presented as advocating for governance or control, American Primeval almost seems willing to accept the nastiness in exchange for the scruffy solidarity.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The victory also elevated his career earnings total to more than $7 million, not too shabby for a horse that sold at auction for $40,000 as a 2-year-old.
    Clark Spencer, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Not too shabby for someone who started their journey on a reality TV show, right?
    Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But at least for the moment, some players and some newfound nimbleness have an old order looking a little less bedraggled and besieged.
    Alan Blinder, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Bradley Cooper’s character in this psychological thriller is a bedraggled writer whose career and personal life are languishing until a friend slips him a new psychotropic medication called NZT.
    Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2011

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“Scroungy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scroungy. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.

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