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How he looked: Suited up and de-scruffed for Washington, but otherwise the same pensive emo dreamboat you see on the screen.
Celebvocate: Mark Ruffalo voices caution on gas drilling The Reliable Source 2011
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These prepsters uptown haven't quite scruffed up enough for flannel and tweed in the city.
Cator Sparks: J. Crew Conquers The Upper East Side (PHOTOS) Cator Sparks 2010
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These prepsters uptown haven't quite scruffed up enough for flannel and tweed in the city.
Cator Sparks: J. Crew Conquers The Upper East Side (PHOTOS) Cator Sparks 2010
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My hands get scruffed from taking out my passport and boarding pass - again and again -- before boarding.
La Carmina: Essential Tips For Saving Your Skin While Traveling La Carmina 2011
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So, at home you start — for just seconds at a time — getting the kitten to the point she can tolerate lying on her back, or being scruffed, for example, or having her hind end handled, so none of this feels foreign at the vet's.
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These prepsters uptown haven't quite scruffed up enough for flannel and tweed in the city.
Cator Sparks: J. Crew Conquers The Upper East Side (PHOTOS) Cator Sparks 2010
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He had strong-looking shoulders, and life goals, and a dog he scruffed under the neck and crooned at.
The Six Rules of Maybe DEB CALETTI 2010
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She twisted me in a slow circle, her pointed finger hopping from a weeper with huge biceps and teary hangdog eyes to an albino blond to an artfully scruffed guy, bare from the waist up and dosed out on Xers, who happened to be a dead ringer for Walker, my org ex.
Wired Robin Wasserman 2010
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We scruffed the necks of our own cats, who knew we were leaving them for a big trip and were already huffy and pissed, and we climbed into the VW and roared the water-cooled 1.9-liter twenty-two-year-old engine and pulled away from the curb.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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The original recyclers, they opened free stores and touted the beat-up used clothes ethos, from mis-shaped hats to scruffed up shoes — and on 20-year-old bodies, the look worked.
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