scruffy
/ˈskrʌfi
/adjective (scruffier, scruffiest)
Shabby and untidy or dirty: a teenager in scruffy jeans and a baggy T-shirt...
- He was looking down, he was scruffy, he had dirty jeans and he was not on this planet.
- He's dressed in scruffy jeans and a faded biker jacket, talking in quiet, understated tones.
- If the jeans were baggy and scruffy, the whole outfit would be unbalanced.
Synonyms
shabby, worn, down at heel, shoddy, ragged, tattered, mangy, sorry, run down, disreputable;
untidy, unkempt, bedraggled, messy, dishevelled, ungroomed, ill-groomed, sleazy, seedy, slatternly, slovenly;
dirty, squalid, filthy
informal tatty, the worse for wear, scuzzy, grungy, yucky
British informal grotty
North American informal raggedy
Derivatives
scruffily
/ adverb ...- A woman is approached in the street by a scruffily dressed youth who opens his mouth - and asks for directions to the local mosque.
- His bag and jacket were shiny, his top button done up, his tie scruffily fitted.
- This resulted in a situation where the higher up the management ladder you are, the more scruffily you dress at work.
scruffiness
/ noun ...- But I think people love that scruffiness, that roughness.
- The punters don't seem to mind the scruffiness.
- So aren't the protestations of terminal scruffiness and aw-shucks fallibility just a little disingenuous?
Rhymes
- read-only
- read-only memory
- readopt
- readoption
- readorn
- read-out
- read someone like a book
- read someone out of
- read someone's mind (or thoughts)
- read someone's palm
- read someone the Riot Act
- read something into
- read the runes
- read-through
- read up on something (or read something up)
- readvance
- readvancement
- re-advertise
- re-advertisement
- readvise
- read-write
- ready
- -ready
- ready cash
- ready-made