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Discover LudwigThe word "scrunchy" is correct and usable in written English.
It is most commonly used to refer to a type of hair accessory, such as a hair scrunchie or headband. An example sentence would be: "Carrying all of her books in her arms, she used a scrunchy to hold her long hair back."
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scrunchy
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Alternative spelling of scrunchie
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Mike: Sharp jacket, scrunchy skirt, pair of hoopy shoes – Ms Knowles is making the walking satsuma look too easy to pull off.
If you weren't too distracted by Porter's black scrunchy, which spent the entire hour looking like it was about to fall out of her hair at any moment, you may have caught several of her outfit changes, not least the pink all-in-one she chose to wear to play golf with a Chinese entrepreneur.
"You do get to feel the skin as this dynamic, scrunchy surface," he said.
As he practiced, Bianconi paused occasionally to point out the quality of the music — a sophisticated piece of counterpoint here, a particularly scrunchy harmony there.
She flipped through the pages and read off critiques: "I'd really like to take out the 3-D element"; "Does it bother you that I have a hair scrunchy on my wrist for some of the pictures?"; "O.K. 'Love Story'?
"Also, the leather is too scrunchy," he said.
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The cobbled street was packed with boys in oversize denim and scrunchy-sporting girls, who were chain-smoking rollies and shouting at each other.
At one point, Alda, smiling that ingratiating, scrunchy-eyed smile of his, says to the audience, "I don't like the official way of doing anything.
Pausing only to bed a scrunchy-eyed drummer (Cam Gigandet) and style another edgy hat-and-scarf ensemble, Sara decides to investigate her new BFF.
If you are inclined to circulate motivational epigrams on Facebook, you could do worse than get a still from the video for How Could You Babe, in which a scrunchy-faced Jesso plays piano in an empty swimming pool, and affix some curly script to it that says: Success Often Comes When You Stop Chasing It.
Sure, Clinton jokes in the book about scrunchies and outfits and nail polish to make her point that woman in public life are forced under a microscope.
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