adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bottle-wrack looks the same and grows in the same straggly way.
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He had no razor of course, so he sported a straggly beard and moustache.
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He smelled vaguely of joss sticks, and his long, straggly hair was flecked with dandruff.
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His wizened face sprouted the long straggly wisps of a white mandarin mustache and beard.
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I glimpsed the spiked heads of decapitated traitors, their shredded necks, gaping mouths and straggly hair.
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Juliet almost ran to the first house, which sported a wooden sign behind a straggly hawthorn hedge.
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The straggly hair was trimmed and washed.
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There were a few leaves left on the straggly garden bushes, hanging all crumpled and lifeless.