单词 | straggly |
释义 | straggly (once / 46533 pages) adj WORD FAMILY straggle: straggled, straggler, straggles, straggling, straggly+/straggler: stragglers/straggling: stragglingly USAGE EXAMPLESHe’s wearing black shorts, and sporting straggly hair and a goatee that humorously moves when the nutcracker’s mouth is opened. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) Some of the homeless sported straggly beards, torn and stained jackets and, for one man, a large tattoo on his bald head, evident when bowed. Seattle Times(Nov 13, 2016) It was piling in heaps on sidewalks, on roofs, gathering in patches on the bark of straggly trees. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) 1adj growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly straggly ivy Syn distributed spread out or scattered about or divided up 2adj spreading out in different directions straggly hair Syn rambling, sprawling, straggling untidy not neat and tidy |
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