Scruffy in a sentence as an adjective

The friend waits in reception, falls asleep; he's really scruffy.

"If that's not ad hominem, I'm not sure what is, you scruffy-looking nerf herder.

But when the scruffy-haired kids at eEye published advisories, look out!

The same, although come to think of it, in the 50s, how many scruffy, bearded veteran programmers could there have been?

Go to any of those places, find a comfy looking bar, walk up to a table full of scruffy looking people and ask where they're from.

You have to have a narrative, an objective, a scruffy white male lead, and the ability to blow **** up. I don't even know what you're doing here, this isn't a game, it's a map editor.

"And engineers are supposed to be the scruffy, smelly disgusting masses of humanity.

I've looked at the pictures and see nothing "suspicious" about them at all except that they're brown and a little scruffy looking.

They invested in Apple when it was run by two scruffy kids and nobody believed their "personal computer" story.

I doubt I can convert a hardcore Haskell programmer on my "scruffy" unchecked, dynamic point of view, but we might have a good conversation about it.

The senior engineer was very scruffy and cantankerous at times, which made him unapproachable to many people.

Awesome Tumblrs, lo-fi keytar side band, scruffy hair, interesting glasses, polaroid cameras.

Having since done a lot of travel in the 'modern' way of nice hotels, rental cars and the like, I still get wistful when I see a couple of scruffy looking youngsters making their way on a shoestring cash budget but a burgeoning enthusiasm supply.

If you are an executive, this is your day: a scruffy man in a Hawaiian shirt walks into your office and says, "I need you to be personally responsible for giving me one hundred million dollars so I can go to Ireland and have people who pretend for a living act like they're fighting imaginary dragons.

Scruffy definitions

adjective

shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain

See also: seedy