as in dilapidated
showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect
dressed in scruffy old clothes to clean out the garage
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Another key difference: an adorably scruffy dog stands at their feet.
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Eliza Berman, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
Celebrity Style This is as scruffy as Victoria Beckham gets.
September 24, 2024
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—Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 24 Sep. 2024
The interior grew scruffy and, as a hangout for generations of writers, clammy from the haze of stray storylines left unfinished or unfulfilled under its roof.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
One evening in the summer of 2022, in Berlin’s scruffy Görlitzer Park, Angel and her close friend and colleague Joshua Leifer spoke of the inevitability of escalation in Israel-Palestine.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
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Eliza Berman, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
Celebrity Style This is as scruffy as Victoria Beckham gets.
September 24, 2024
All products are independently selected by our editors.
—Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 24 Sep. 2024
The interior grew scruffy and, as a hangout for generations of writers, clammy from the haze of stray storylines left unfinished or unfulfilled under its roof.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
One evening in the summer of 2022, in Berlin’s scruffy Görlitzer Park, Angel and her close friend and colleague Joshua Leifer spoke of the inevitability of escalation in Israel-Palestine.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
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“Scruffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scruffy. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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