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Scraggly vs Scraggily - What's the difference?

scraggly | scraggily |

As an adjective scraggly

is rough, scruffy, or unkempt.

As an adverb scraggily is

in a scraggy way.

scraggly

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Rough, scruffy, or unkempt.
  • * 1913 , , John Barleycorn , ch. 31:
    • The sunburn of my face, what little of it could be seen through a scraggly growth of beard, had faded to a sickly yellow.
  • * 1980 Nov. 24, John Skow, " In Arizona: A Million Dollar Sale of Cowboy Art," Time :
    • What he painted was scenes of the Old West, cowboys and Indians, cattle and horses. Pictures scraggly with sagebrush.
  • Jagged or uneven; scraggy.
  • * 1916 , , Georgina of the Rainbows , ch. 24:
    • She would be so happy . . . that she wouldn't notice the spelling or the scraggly writing.
  • * 2001 Sep. 7, , " At the MTV Awards: Redheads and Circuses," Time :
    • "I have no idea," the young woman said, checking over the scraggly illegible signature the mystery woman had left her in her autograph book.

    Derived terms

    * scraggliness

    scraggily

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a scraggy way.