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What is the adjective for scruffy?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb scruff which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

scruffy
  1. Untidy in appearance.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. slovenly, unkempt, disheveled, dishevelled, untidy, daggy, frowzy, messy, ragged, shabby, sloppy, ungroomed, bedraggled, dirty, draggletailed, sleazy, slatternly, ill-groomed, badly groomed, worse for wear, ill-clad, badly dressed, poorly dressed, inappropriately dressed, dowdy, tousled, slobbish, blowsy, sloven, frowsy, slobby, rumpled, raggedy, shaggy, ruffled, grubby, uncombed, frumpish, blowzy, matted, grungy, mussed, tangled, drab, frumpy, scraggly, draggle-tailed, stodgy, ratty, disarrayed … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “He had never gotten around to shaving, he realized, and now he felt scruffy and unkempt.”
      “He lived in the back of a scruffy old house on a mean little back street in the market.”
scruffier
  1. comparative form of scruffy: more scruffy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. slovenlier, untidier, daggier, frowzier, messier, shabbier, sloppier, dirtier, sleazier, more unkempt, more disheveled, more dishevelled, more ragged, more bedraggled, more draggletailed, more slatternly, more ill-groomed, squalider, mangier, scrubbier, tattier, grungier, seedier, shoddier, dumpier, filthier, meaner, miserabler, rattier, scuzzier, sorrier, tackier, grottier, grubbier, raggedier, rougher, yuckier, more worn, more dilapidated, more neglected, more tatterdemalion, more threadbare, more tumbledown, more timeworn, more beat-up, more moth-eaten, more bombed-out … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Competition for cars rose, even the scruffier ones. But more information is not always better.”
      “A four-week old tent camp in the square looks scruffier by the day.”
      “Dai and Debbie's two up, two down was scruffier than ever, the pavement and doorstep smeared with mud.”
scruffiest
  1. superlative form of scruffy: most scruffy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. slovenliest, untidiest, daggiest, frowziest, messiest, shabbiest, sloppiest, dirtiest, sleaziest, most unkempt, most disheveled, most dishevelled, most ragged, most bedraggled, most draggletailed, most slatternly, most ill-groomed, squalidest, mangiest, scrubbiest, tattiest, grungiest, seediest, shoddiest, dumpiest, filthiest, meanest, miserablest, rattiest, scuzziest, sorriest, tackiest, grottiest, grubbiest, raggediest, roughest, yuckiest, most worn, most dilapidated, most neglected, most tatterdemalion, most threadbare, most tumbledown, most timeworn, most beat-up, most moth-eaten, most bombed-out … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Van Gerwen does take advantage this time and wins the scruffiest leg of the match so far.”
      “With his mesh baseball cap and gleaming necklace, he looked like the world's scruffiest high-roller.”
      “Parishioners were walking up to perhaps the scruffiest, most disheveled-looking man in the church as he sat in his pew, offering a greeting and making a request.”
scruffed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of scruff
scruffing
  1. present participle of scruff
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