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Discover LudwigThe word "scraggy" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe something that is thin and shaggy-looking, such as an animal or a person. For example, "The dog was a scraggy little thing, with a long, shaggy coat."
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Mr Morin, a stickler for the old ways, doesn't much believe in using electricity at home for anything other than religious occasions.Appetites sated, a score of cowboys, one young woman and your (less young) correspondent mount scraggy horses.
This scraggy patch of land, part of London's green belt, has been protected from the bulldozers for nearly 60 years.
In Cafunfo, for example, a scraggy town in the north-east, the streets are a rapidly eroding mixture of mud, rubbish and sewage, there is no electricity, no running water and no school above the fourth year of primary education.
The river Vareille flowed at the bottom, scraggy woods crowned the tops, in a four-house hamlet called Glozel in an unknown corner of the Allier 12 miles from Vichy in the very middle of France.The field was all brambles, and the cattle struggled.
In fact, he was more often lyrical and tender: instead of scraggy crows, soft-footed cats.America, however, quickly became a succession of masks and intense experimentation.
* Cut back herbs which are now beginning to look scraggy.
I come from scraggy farm and moss, Old patchworks that the pitch and toss Of history have left dishevelled..
He is known as a documenter of high society and glamour: the man who shot the Windsors, Grace Kelly, Vivien Leigh; Picasso, Dietrich, Churchill, Twiggy; whose aesthetic sensibility was affronted by the newly coronated Queen's nose being too red, Audrey Hepburn's neck too scraggy and Great Garbo's hands as having done too much washing up.
McBurney's recent ENO staging of the Bulgakov/Raskatov opera A Dog's Heart was tighter, the diabolical dog scarier than Blind Summit's scraggy cat puppet here.
With his abundance of tattoos, scraggy baseball cap and impressively overgrown beard, the singer may look like an ill-tempered truckstop attendant but when he opens his mouth the audience swoons.
But Cantona is easily out-ranked in charm by the unknown Evets, a scraggy wolfhound of a man with a peerlessly frazzled, what-just-happened demeanour.
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