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scraggliness en · NOUN

Etymology

From scraggly + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Roughness, scruffiness, or unkemptness.
    • The great thing about mowing is that it is visually satisfying; with each overlapping pass, one more swath is shorn, and where there was once scraggliness and unkemptness, now there is neatness and trimness. 2002 April 5, Charles McGrath, “Rituals: Great Ways to Wreck A Quiet Weekend”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Sep 2011:
    • Ditto for Uma Thurman, whose loose blonde strands were defiant in their scraggliness. Your mother would have called this kind of hair a bird's nest. 2002 April 18, Hollywood's Such a Mess These Days: Left and right, stars wear their hear unkept, Lexington Herald-Leader, p. E3 (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011)
    • He was dressed casually, expensively, a contrast to his older brother's ragged, threadbare clothes and general scraggliness. 2004, Carla Neggers, White Hot, →ISBN, page 195: