Their opening goal typified the game in its scrappiness, before it sparked into life after the leveller. |
They played with control and flair in the first half, while the second half was imbued with indiscipline and scrappiness. |
If there had been collective culpability for that scrappiness, there were glints of individual excellence to raise the curtain on the second half. |
There's a scrappiness to the place that refined tastes might find disagreeable. |
The firm combines the heft of a big company with the scrappiness of a start-up. |
Kaplan brushed away the question with a winsome line about the paper's scrappiness. |