Scruffy

/ˈskɹʌf.i/ · adjective

Meaning

Untidy in appearance; scrubby; shabby..

Definitions by Sense

1. Untidy in appearance; scrubby; shabby.
2. Scurfy.
3. (informal) An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that intelligence is too complicated (or computationally intractable) to be solved with the sorts of homogeneous system favoured by the "neats".
4. (Alaska, slang) An arctic fox.

Example Sentences

A scruffy little dog came scampering down the road.

scruffy clothes

scruffy man

scruffy outfit

"So you wanna be a rock 'n roll star?!" screams the centerspread of a scruffy rag produced by the Boston activist group Rock Against Sexism (R.A.S.) Amid a jumbled collage picturing shaggy-headed, bare-chested, "fuckin' awesome" white guy rockers, photo captions tell us how to succeed at rock 'n roll.

And I will think of my father, sun-baked, scruffy and far from home, stalking the wilds of Clapham Common, saved from a dinner of roasted aesculin by people who knew the importance of making someone feel at home.

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• scruffier
• scruffiest
• scruffies

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