Scraggly vs Scrawny - What's the difference?
scraggly | scrawny |
Rough, scruffy, or unkempt.
* 1913 , , John Barleycorn , ch. 31:
* 1980 Nov. 24, John Skow, "
Jagged or uneven; scraggy.
* 1916 , , Georgina of the Rainbows , ch. 24:
* 2001 Sep. 7, , "
As adjectives the difference between scraggly and scrawny
is that scraggly is rough, scruffy, or unkempt while scrawny is thin, malnourished and weak.scraggly
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The sunburn of my face, what little of it could be seen through a scraggly growth of beard, had faded to a sickly yellow.
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.
- She would be so happy . . . that she wouldn't notice the spelling or the scraggly writing.
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.
