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- adjective
comparative form ofscruffy : morescruffy
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Examples
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She’s a kind of scruffier version of the Countess.
Maigret in Montmartre Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1958
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Among his other smart moves, creator Jeff Eastin (whose last TV series was the far less successful throwback Hawaii) spares us any 48 Hours-type sparring between Neal and the FBI agent who caught him and is now stuck with him: Peter Burke (played with equal if scruffier appeal by Tim DeKay).
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He and his sisters lived peripatetically, eventually settling in Swiss Cottage, Hampstead's scruffier neighbour.
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While the director, Carlos Saldanha, is Brazilian, some of the scruffier citizens of this Rio have Mexican accents.
Animated 'Rio': A Witty Carnival of Brazil Nuts Joe Morgenstern 2011
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The opening of the Ace Hotel in 2009 helped jump-start a revitalization of the neighborhood, though it is still scruffier than popular downtown destinations like SoHo or the Meatpacking District.
NoMad Hotel Gets Investors to Plant Roots Craig Karmin 2011
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Dubliners Dead Cat Bounce are a case in point: a first-class comedy band that have it in them to be Ireland's even scruffier answer to Flight Of The Conchords.
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Dubliners Dead Cat Bounce are a case in point: a first-class comedy band that have it in them to be Ireland's even scruffier answer to Flight Of The Conchords.
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The neat, middle-class enclaves of Edinburgh or Leeds, with their almost wholly middle-class streets and playgrounds, offer a different life from scruffier, moresocially mixed but increasingly gentrified Hackney or Lambeth.
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He'll be a bit tidier, you'll be a bit scruffier.
Who Do You Say I Am 2010
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All have dressed up for the occasion - and my doesn't Andy Roddick look strange without a baseball cap attached to his head or clutched in a sweaty palm - except Roger Federer, who looks 1,000 times scruffier in a grey suit and official Wimbledon tie than he hever lets himself appear in his made-to-measure outfits on court.
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