as in scruffy
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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.
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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
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
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He's had long hair, short hair, a scruffy beard, a short beard, and just about everything in between.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
15 Mar. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Like his late father’s homing pigeons who keep returning to their shabby rooftop coop — a holding-pattern image that echoes the ennui of Terry Malloy on a very different waterfront — he’s imprisoned by the limits of his knowledge, the petrified loop of his experience.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
26 Feb. 2025
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If Serena van der Woodsen had to end up with someone other than Dan Humphrey, Ryan Reynolds isn't too shabby a choice.—
Rachel DeSantis,
EW.com,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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 19 Mar. 2025.
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