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scruffier

a. (en-comparative of: scruffy)

WordNet
scruffy
  1. adj. shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain [syn: seedy]

  2. [also: scruffiest, scruffier]

scruffier

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Usage examples of "scruffier".

There were three of them, one looking like a preppie who had forgotten to wash, the other two scruffier, with roached haircuts and eye makeup.

Brighton - a kind of small Irish panhandle that sticks way out to the west of Boston proper - then followed back streets and sidewalks due east until I was in Allston, part of the same panhandle, but scruffier and more complicated.

Republic was short-lived, for it was but a minute or so later that four more columns of combatants entered the fray, and the advocates of the Republic were soon set into flight no less undignified than that of their scruffier cousins of the Democracy.

They all seemed even scruffier than usual, a worn-out, beat-up group of men.

Borneheld stood before the fire, a little scruffier than when Gilbert had last seen him, with his auburn hair shaved so short it appeared he had a badly bruised but utterly bald scalp, yet Gilbert still thought he looked the noblest man in the room.