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scraggliness

scraggliness noun: roughness, scruffiness, or unkemptness.

Noun

scraggliness (uncountable)

  1. Roughness, scruffiness, or unkemptness.
    • The great thing about mowing is that it is visually satisfying; with each overlapping pass, one more swath is shorn, and where there was once scraggliness and unkemptness, now there is neatness and trimness.2002 April 5, Charles McGrath, “Rituals: Great Ways to Wreck A Quiet Weekend”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Sep 2011
    • Ditto for Uma Thurman, whose loose blonde strands were defiant in their scraggliness. Your mother would have called this kind of hair a bird's nest.2002 April 18, Hollywood's Such a Mess These Days: Left and right, stars wear their hear unkept, Lexington Herald-Leader, p. E3 (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011)

Origin of scraggliness

From scraggly + -ness.

Questions about scraggliness

What does scraggliness mean?
Scraggliness means roughness, scruffiness, or unkemptness.
What part of speech is scraggliness?
Scraggliness is a noun.

Words near scraggliness in the dictionary

  1. scraggle-bearded
  2. scraggled
  3. scraggles
  4. scragglier
  5. scraggliest
  6. scraggliness
  7. scraggling
  8. scraggly
  9. scraggy
  10. scragh
  11. scraghs

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