Meaning of Scragginess | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Roughness; irregularity; jaggedness.
   uncountable
2. Leanness or thinness, especially as tending toward haggardness; scrawniness.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“He wore the scragginess of an unshaven face⟳ like⟳ a lost man in pursuit of some safe harbor.”

“[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.”

“There is not the least look⟳ of scragginess about her, just extreme slenderness, a small-boned creature of perhaps five foot four or five.”

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