Scragginess
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Scragginess is a noun meaning Roughness; irregularity; jaggedness.
Meaning
Roughness; irregularity; jaggedness.
More Meanings
- Leanness or thinness, especially as tending toward haggardness; scrawniness.
Example Sentences
He wore the scragginess of an unshaven face like a lost man in pursuit of some safe harbor.
There is not the least look of scragginess about her, just extreme slenderness, a small-boned creature of perhaps five foot four or five.
[I]f Marian's girlish slimness showed faint, prophetic signs of degenerating into scragginess, George was still far too deeply in love to heed such evil and irreverent prophecies.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include scraggliness, cragginess, scrawliness, scabbiness, scrungly, blotchwork.
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