“Its rough surfaces bring a scragginess to his voice, the rising and falling tone making his words seem a plead, almost, a yearn.”

“He wore the scragginess of an unshaven face like a lost man in pursuit of some safe harbor.”

“There is not the least look of scragginess about her, just extreme slenderness, a small-boned creature of perhaps five foot four or five.”

“He was dressed casually, expensively, a contrast to his older brother's ragged, threadbare clothes and general scraggliness.”

“Ditto 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.”

“They had me and the rest of those scrags and scalawags gyrating all over in some sort of fiendish trance!”

“In Lancashire before industrialisation, families would work at home spinning thread while scrags of mutton stewed slowly over a low fire.”