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Meaning of Scragginess | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

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

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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.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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