adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
scrappy notes (= very short and not detailed enough )
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Her rather scrappy notes weren’t much use when it came to revision.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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This scrappy little software company has decided to take on the market leader.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After a scrappy opening, Haslemere took the lead when James Simpson fired in a rebound.
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Small and scrappy institutions will fold.
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The final chapter is no more than a scrappy addition with rather a lot of photographs of by now familiar faces from November 1989.
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Though when he thought of his scrappy essay he quaked rather.