scraggy

Definition

Rough and irregular; jagged.

Example Sentences

• "Her tender arms the angry sharpness rue Of many a scraggy thorn and envious brier;"
• "[H]e grasped the rock. It was scraggy, and though it tore and bruised him he clung to it."
• "On one of these occasions, he presented for the first time to Mannering his tall, gaunt, awkward, bony figure, attired in a threadbare suit of black, with a coloured handkerchief, not over clean, about his sinewy, scraggy neck."