scraggiest

You know the thing, trays and trays of lovely looking chops or steaks or whatever, so you ask for a kilo or two and the assistant gets yours from the bottom of the last tray and then when you get home find the sorriest, scraggiest bits of meat that no-one else wanted.

At My Table 2006

You know the thing, trays and trays of lovely looking chops or steaks or whatever, so you ask for a kilo or two and the assistant gets yours from the bottom of the last tray and then when you get home find the sorriest, scraggiest bits of meat that no-one else wanted.

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Yet the scraggiest of them drag in some bit of intellectual esoterica, the most genteel now and then use slang.

Mixed Company Mazzocco, Robert 1965

Above Pi-wi-ack the river runs for a mile at the bottom of a granite cradle, sloping upward from it on each side at an angle of about forty-five degrees, in great tabular masses slippery as ice, without a crevice in them for thirty yards at a stretch where even the scraggiest

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

He was the leanest, scraggiest long thing I have ever seen.

The Mountebank William John Locke 1896

As for the hymn book, it contained two or three good pieces, like Newman's "Lead, Kindly Light," but for the rest it was the scraggiest collection I ever met with -- evangelical and wooden, with an occasional dash of weak music and washy sentiment.

Prisoner for Blasphemy 1882

Arabic feminine names, thought it a "misnomer", for of all his she-persecutors she was the leanest and scraggiest.

The Boy Slaves Mayne Reid 1850

"wolf-killer" was mounted upon one of the scraggiest looking quadrupeds it would be possible to imagine -- an old mare "mustang."

The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850

'the scraggiest Prophetic Discourse ever uttered by man,' -- Mahomet

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

I assure you -- nothing more or less, and drawn by the very scraggiest scarecrow of a blind horse. "

St. Winifred's, or The World of School 1867