Itching for a fight

Usage examples of scrappy.

The effect of this scrappy, desultory reading is bad enough when the hashed compound selected is tolerably good.

As she served out a scrappy ratatouille in the little upstairs kitchen, a recipe from her Paris days, there was little talk.

Braggen, his heavy brows bristled, and his short, scrappy steps reflecting a pique like dammed magma.

Even the scrappy little area out front had been sodded and fringed with daffodils for spring, with pulmonaria and bergenia to bloom later, and astilbe waiting in the wings for midsummer.

The reams of intercepts sent back to Washington exceeded expectations and NSA, now the junior partner, asked that the scrappy spy ship try its luck against China and North Korea.

She lay awake for a long time thinking about it and then overslept so that her breakfast was a scrappy affair of tea and toast, and for all the good her sleepless night had done her, she might just as well not have given Philip a thought, and indeed she had no time to think about him at all during the morning.

Wolverines were intrepid, scrappy scavengers, fierce enough to drive away predators larger than themselves from their kills, fearless enough to steal drying meat or anything portable they could carry off, and wily enough to break into storage caches.

He produced a bar chart, a scrappy series of pillars, uneven in height.

Dick Shenk had begun his career in the sixties as a scrappy documentary producer, back in the days when the news divisions were prestige loss leaders for the networks- autonomous, handsomely budgeted, and lavishly staffed.

Constant picking of the scraps in their garden patches had made the Quilty men exceedingly scrappy, and constant stitching upon the patch-work quilts had made the Quilty ladies extremely cross and crotchety.

It would be one of those scrappy little Route One towns, with much attention given to the requirements of auto travel.