SCRAGGILY Synonyms

• being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn

• worn out from stress or strain

• having an irregular outline

• having or caused by an irregular surface

• of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

• not shaped by cutting or trimming

• the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

• with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')

• with rough motion as over a rough surface

• (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse

• not quite exact or correct

• full of hardship or trials

• violently agitated and turbulent

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• ready and able to resort to force or violence

• not carefully or expertly made

• not perfected

• unpleasantly stern

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

• sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring

• having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface

• topographically very uneven

• very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution

• shabby and untidy

• used of hair; thick and poorly groomed

• having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags

• in disarray; extremely disorderly

• not neatly combed

• not properly maintained or cared for

• not neat and tidy