scraggly

adj

1. Rough, scruffy, or unkempt.

   “The sunburn of my face, what little of it could be seen through a scraggly growth of beard, had faded to a sickly yellow.”

   “Faintly from the street scraggly children's voices singing a yule song. Miss Tomson going to the window. "Hey come here Mr Smith look at this, isn't that sweet, group of urchins, they're singing."”

   “What he painted was scenes of the Old West, cowboys and Indians, cattle and horses. Pictures scraggly with sagebrush.”

2. Jagged or uneven; scraggy.

   “She would be so happy . . . that she wouldn't notice the spelling or the scraggly writing.”

   “"I have no idea," the young woman said, checking over the scraggly illegible signature the mystery woman had left her in her autograph book.”

   “I climbed to a small ridge under a fiercely blazing sun and sat down under a scraggly gum tree to try and work out my bearings.”