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  • Work your way through the scrungy scene outside the sex shops and tattoo parlors adjacent to the theater, and you might see a latter-day Travis or Iris lurking in the shadows.

    Psychos and Suckers 2010

  • I do not know how any of these races will turn out but Romney is such an obvious fraud it is hard for me to believe he will win the nomination even among the scrungy crew that is seeking the nomination.

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | New Hampshire Paper Anti-Endorses Romney 2009

  • I do not know how any of these races will turn out but Romney is such an obvious fraud it is hard for me to believe he will win the nomination even among the scrungy crew that is seeking the nomination.

    New Hampshire Paper Anti-Endorses Romney 2009

  • That scrungy little hunk of copper was the brother of those I'd collected already.

    Cold Copper Tears Cook, Glen 1988

  • He looked scrungy and tired that day, but hey, that was Rick Bragg.

    Farmington Daily Times Most Viewed 2009

  • "Expecting to see the scrungy, scruggy mutt he had once been, he was startled to find himself looking down at the most enormous wolf-dog that ever there was.

    Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

  • But Roile" did not react, busy gnawing methodically on a scrungy femur.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

  • But Roile" did not react, busy gnawing methodically on a scrungy femur.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

  • “I don’t know why you care about that scrungy old thing,” Lily said.

    The Year I Turned Sixteen Diane Schwemm 1998

  • “I don’t know why you care about that scrungy old thing,” Lily said.

    The Year I Turned Sixteen Diane Schwemm 1998

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  • Okay, I admit I made this one up but doesn;t it work great for dingy and scroungy and dirty?

    October 18, 2008

  • You made this up? Gee, I grew up saying this, and learned it from my parents.

    October 18, 2008

  • Yes~!~ It's real! Yay! I couldn't find it in any online dictionaries.

    October 18, 2008

  • Same here--maybe it's a Pennsylvania thing?

    October 20, 2008

  • Makes me think of scungies.

    October 20, 2008