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How to pronounce scruffy in English?

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Synonyms seedy


a surge of ragged scruffy children.

Examples of scruffy

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Mr Hussain's scruffy home in Desborough Castle does not fall into this category.
From the bucksfreepress.co.uk
Scruffy Murphy's will try to break the curse on its building on Edgewater Drive.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The more structure you can give a vegetable garden, the less scruffy its nature.
From the washingtonpost.com
The driver is described as a black male, possibly in his 30s, with scruffy hair.
From the heraldtribune.com
I thought the scruffy part was talking about that bloke in the photo by the way.
From the guardian.co.uk
He wiped the sweat from his close-cropped crew cut and his blond, scruffy beard.
From the time.com
Presents were a bit scruffy during the plague years, but the thought was there.
From the bostonherald.com
He was unshaven, scruffy and wearing a black duffle coat and grey baseball cap.
From the brimbankweekly.com.au
With every feat, a scruffy superhero inflicts collateral damage upon Los Angeles.
From the post-gazette.com
More examples
  • Shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
  • Scruffy is a 1938 British family film directed by Randall Faye and starring Jack Melford, Billy Merson and Peter Gawthorne. A young boy runs away from his wealthy home because his mother does not like his dog, and ends up living with a burglar.
  • (Scruffies) In artificial intelligence, the labels neats and scruffies are used to refer to one of the continuing philosophical disputes in artificial intelligence research. This conflict is over a serious concern: what is the best way to design an intelligent system? ...
  • Untidy in appearance