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- s shabby and untidy
a surge of ragged scruffy children
- 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 .