Scraggliness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Roughness, scruffiness, or unkemptness. uncountable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From scraggly + -ness.

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