scraggle

From time to time, as he spoke, we glimpsed the murky scraggle of his teeth.

Excerpt: The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich 2008

There, I had waitedwith a scraggle-bearded Frenchman in a claptrap ten-by-ten lobby.

The Last Afghan: Dark Dog of Death 2009

He saw the wheelchair beggars with their scraggle beards, they raced each other to a stopped car, bodied forth, hands screwing and cranking.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

He saw the wheelchair beggars with their scraggle beards, they raced each other to a stopped car, bodied forth, hands screwing and cranking.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

He saw the wheelchair beggars with their scraggle beards, they raced each other to a stopped car, bodied forth, hands screwing and cranking.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

I estimated he was somewhere in his mid - to late 50s, though he looked older; faded and weathered as to life itself — a scraggle of thinning grey hair, wrinkled face deep as furrows, and a mouth that had long been bereft of serviceable teeth.

A conversation with a ghost. 2008

Some of his neck hairs scraggle up around the vee of the shirt.

The Mother Garden Robin Romm 2007

Some of his neck hairs scraggle up around the vee of the shirt.

The Mother Garden Robin Romm 2007

They had reached Blue Valley Road, which was nothing more than a couple of dirt ruts separated by a scraggle of weeds.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

Then he stepped back and peered up at the ospreys, whose heads were barely visible over the scraggle of the nest.

Hoot Hiaasen, Carl 2002