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Meaning of scraggliness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Roughness, scruffiness, or unkemptness.

uncountable

Examples

“The great thing about mowing is that it is visually satisfying; with each overlapping pass, one more swath is shorn, and where there was once scraggliness and unkemptness, now there is neatness and trimness.”
“Ditto for Uma Thurman, whose loose blonde strands were defiant in their scraggliness. Your mother would have called this kind of hair a bird's nest.”
“He was dressed casually, expensively, a contrast to his older brother's ragged, threadbare clothes and general scraggliness.”

CEFR level

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