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.
Jagged or uneven; scraggy.
She would be so happy . . . that she wouldn't notice the spelling or the scraggly writing.
As if from a verb *scraggle (in turn from scrag). Equivalent to scrag + -le + -ly.
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