Definition of scruffy | Bee Dictionary of English

She was a child of the frontier, born in scruffy Ely, Nevada; a daughter of the Depression, helping coax a living out of four acres of Southern California soil; a wife of the '50s .
In 1968 the archconservative Manchester Union Leader had published an exaggerated expos that portrayed the college's scruffy students as rich freaks who spent more time at drug .
But banking bored him, and the gay Greenwich Village milieu that he slipped into was full of scruffy radicals, drug-addled theater queens and goofy twentysomethings fleeing Midwest .

AUSTIN DANFORTH
MANCHESTER -- Pointing to the white lacrosse shoes on her feet, a pair that had clearly seen better days, Cara Corvino explained how they became so scruffy: They're all she has worn since her Burr and Burton Academy team won its last state championship -- in 2010, when she was a freshman.
June 15, 2013 - Bennington Banner
Doctors should dress sharp in the name of hygiene, doc says
Doctors who wear casual and even "scruffy" clothes to work not only look unprofessional, but they also convey a lackluster attitude toward personal hygiene, which could have implications for hospital infections, one doctor argues
June 14, 2013 - Fox News
Review: 'Painting in Place' flings open conceptual abstraction doors
LAND's scruffy and ambitious show at the old Farmers & Merchants Bank downtown reveals the wide world of conceptual abstraction. Before the 1980s, abstract painting typically embraced pure form — gesture or geometry as something self-contained, insulated from outside contamination.
June 14, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

Niclas Fasth in AFP
I played very well on the front nine but a bit scruffy on the back nine. I had loads of birdie chances but yet again, I would have hoped for a few more to drop. I guess I'm not alone in that, I'm not too far off,said Fasth.

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