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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Not when scruffy rebels had access to Intel’s chips and Microsoft’s software.
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Rich Karlgaard, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
In fact, plenty of other teams from the Oakland A’s of the ‘70s, who were actually paid $300 by owner Charley Finley to sport facial hair, to the scruffy and hirsute Red Sox of 2004, won it all with facial hair.
—Marc Edelman, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
When the 18-year-old was making his way through the various age groups at Southampton, he was deemed to be a bit scruffy, with his boot laces always undone and socks rolled down, but this also endeared him to the coaches.
—The Athletic Uk Staff, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
And yet, Rebuilding was filled with such humanity, such warm detail, and Josh O’Connor made such a wonderfully scruffy sad single dad, that the movie transcended any clichés.
Josh O’Connor in Rebuilding.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
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Rich Karlgaard, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
In fact, plenty of other teams from the Oakland A’s of the ‘70s, who were actually paid $300 by owner Charley Finley to sport facial hair, to the scruffy and hirsute Red Sox of 2004, won it all with facial hair.
—Marc Edelman, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
When the 18-year-old was making his way through the various age groups at Southampton, he was deemed to be a bit scruffy, with his boot laces always undone and socks rolled down, but this also endeared him to the coaches.
—The Athletic Uk Staff, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
And yet, Rebuilding was filled with such humanity, such warm detail, and Josh O’Connor made such a wonderfully scruffy sad single dad, that the movie transcended any clichés.
Josh O’Connor in Rebuilding.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
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“Scruffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scruffy. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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