Meanings
- uncountableRoughness, scruffiness, or unkemptness.
He was dressed casually, expensively, a contrast to his older brother's ragged, threadbare clothes and general scraggliness.
2004, Carla Neggers, White Hot, →ISBN, page 1952 more examples
The great thing about mowing is that it is visually satisfying; with each overlapping pass, one more swath is shorn, and where there was once scraggliness and unkemptness, now there is neatness and trimness.
2002 April 5, Charles McGrath, “Rituals: Great Ways to Wreck A Quiet Weekend”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Sep 2011Ditto for Uma Thurman, whose loose blonde strands were defiant in their scraggliness. Your mother would have called this kind of hair a bird's nest.
2002 April 18, Hollywood's Such a Mess These Days: Left and right, stars wear their hear unkept, Lexington Herald-Leader, p. E3 (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011)
Origin
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