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straggly - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective
from The Century Dictionary.
straggly scrawl; a straggly village. [Colloq.]
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective chaotic and disorganized manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective adjective
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He just hates what he calls straggly straight hair.
CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2007 2007
He just hates what he calls straggly straight hair.
CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2007 2007
It's a wonderfully evocative and private moment, the boy looking kind of straggly and no longer hip without the rain coat and leather jacket to bulk him up, and the girl suggesting her sensuality and sexiness with just the slender curve of her back to the camera.
Elevator to the Gallows Ed Howard 2008
It's a wonderfully evocative and private moment, the boy looking kind of straggly and no longer hip without the rain coat and leather jacket to bulk him up, and the girl suggesting her sensuality and sexiness with just the slender curve of her back to the camera.
Archive 2008-06-01 Ed Howard 2008
At the Riding-house in Nicolson Street was a kind of straggly group, with red-coats interspersed.
Thomas Carlyle John Nichol 1863
Steve Jones, then a student at University College London, recounts how he was approached by a stooped middle-aged American with a straggly beard and wild hair who told me, with great intensity, that he had a hotline to Jesus.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
One December day we found an old straggly cat at our door.
The Stray Cat « You Got to be Kidding's Blog 2009
Fog darkened the wood and hung over the pond, turning the straggly trees near the shore into ghostly figures.
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011
He pointed to the straggly , exhaust-choked line of spiny hedging that grew against the railing.
The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011
His thinning white hair was straggly on his skull, his worn Dallas Cowboys jacket in need of replacing, his jeans hanging loose on his body, his feet clad in old sneakers.
I’ll Walk Alone Mary Higgins Clark 2011
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