scruffy
He dresses scruffily in jeans and an outdoor jacket.
He tucks his shirt scruffily into his waistband.
the scruffily cool guests
Often hastily compiled and scruffily produced, these books are really just items of merchandising.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Dirty & untidy
all over the placeidiom
Augean
besmeared
bespattered
bloodied
look like something the cat brought/dragged inidiom
look like/as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwardsidiom
manky
messily
messy
sluttish
sluttishly
soiled
sordid
sordidly
unsterilized
untidily
untidy
untrimmed
unwashed
Examples of scruffily
scruffily
And with his sharp wit and
scruffily friendly, eccentric stage presence, he's wonderful company.
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Often he was
scruffily dressed.
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