scraggly.

Thin, uneven, and untidy, especially of hair or vegetation.

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Words that belong together

• scraggly beard
• scraggly hedge

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A scraggly hedge marked the boundary of the abandoned garden.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Comparative more scraggly; superlative most scraggly when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.