Scragginess

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

[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.

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