Scraggy

The eagle landed on a scraggy tree.

Scant, low, scraggy cedars gave place to more numerous, darker, greener, bushier ones, and these to high, full-foliaged, green-berried trees.

Her tender arms the angry sharpness rue Of many a scraggy thorn and envious brier;

[H]e grasped the rock. It was scraggy, and though it tore and bruised him he clung to it.

On one of these occasions, he presented for the first time to Mannering his tall, gaunt, awkward, bony figure, attired in a threadbare suit of black, with a coloured handkerchief, not over clean, about his sinewy, scraggy neck.

He is twenty years younger, but has something of the same spare, scraggy physique.