scrappyadjective
uk/ˈskræp.i/us/ˈskræp.i/scrappy adjective (NOT IMPRESSIVE)
UK badly organized or put together:
I'm afraid your last essay was a very scrappy piece of work.
We were scrappy in the first half and deserved to lose.
untidy and not very attractive or well developed:
They live on a scrappy street in a poor part of town.
a patch of scrappy bushes by the front door
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Dirty & untidy
- -stained
- all over the place idiom
- besmeared
- bespattered
- bloodstained
- cat
- inky
- look like something the cat brought/dragged in idiom
- manky
- messy
- mucky
- ragged
- squalid
- streaky
- tangle
- tangled
- tarnish
- tousled
- unclean
- unkempt
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scrappy adjective (DETERMINED)
US having a strong, determined character, and willing to argue or fight for what you want:
a scrappy little kid who won't take no for an answer
Big companies are losing market share to scrappy smaller operators.
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Bad-tempered
- argumentative
- bad-tempered
- be hell on wheels idiom
- be like a bear with a sore head idiom
- be spoiling for a fight idiom
- bilious
- dyspeptic
- fractious
- get out of bed (on) the wrong side idiom
- grouchy
- grumpy
- have a short fuse idiom
- peppery
- petulant
- pugnacious
- quarrelsome
- quick temper
- surly
- truculent
- wear thin idiom
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scrappily
adverb uk/ˈskræp.əl.i/us/ˈskræp.əl.i/