Scragginess

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Roughness; irregularity; jaggedness. uncountable

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

  2. 2
    Leanness or thinness, especially as tending toward haggardness; scrawniness. uncountable

    "[I]f Marian's girlish slimness showed faint, prophetic signs of degenerating into scragginess, George was still far too deeply in love to heed such evil and irreverent prophecies."

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

Etymology

From scraggy + -ness.

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