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Scragly vs Scrawly - What's the difference?

scragly | scrawly |

As an adjective scragly

is .

As an adverb scrawly is

written in the manner of a scrawl, written sloppily and in haste, hard to read.

scragly

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • * 1868 , Ann Sophia Stephens, Doubly False
    • That accounts for my having the dress, but it don't account for the piece that you left sticking to the rose-bush under Mrs. Lander's bed-room winder, which piece I took off that morning, and which piece I matched with the dress after you pitched it at me over them bannisters; it was an awful scragly tear, and it fitted to a T.
  • * 1869 , Joanna Hooe Mathews, Bessie among the mountains
    • The second bud had half opened into another scragly , stunted flower

    scrawly

    English

    Adverb

    (head)
  • Written in the manner of a scrawl, written sloppily and in haste, hard to read.