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Straggly

adjective
1.
Spreading out in different directions.  Synonyms: rambling, sprawling, straggling.  "Straggling branches" , "Straggly hair"
2.
Growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly.





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"Straggly" Quotes from Famous Books



... In a long straggly line, the refugees started out with the native police keeping order and Goodman marching at their head. The two drums and the three bugles of the Narakan Rifles struck up a badly mangled version of Back ...
— Narakan Rifles, About Face! • Jan Smith
... must mean to a man to love his country like this, Claude thought; to love its trees and flowers; to nurse it when it was sick, and tend its hurts with one arm. Among the flowers, which had come back self-sown or from old roots, Claude found a group of tall, straggly plants with reddish stems and tiny white blossoms,—one of the evening primrose family, the Gaura, that grew along the clay banks of Lovely Creek, at home. He had never thought it very pretty, but he was pleased to find ...
— One of Ours • Willa Cather


Words linked to "Straggly" :   untidy, straggling, straggle, sprawling, distributed


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