scruffy• It looks best worn casual and scruffy, but everyone seems intent on continually dressing it up.• I still don't feel it's necessary to wear scruffy clothes to be an actor.• A scruffycyclist who used the Dixons creditcards was never found.• While Mr Clarke revels in his scruffyimage, Mr Portillo is a dapperdresser.• My parents think I look scruffy in these jeans, but I like them.• Their conversation stops abruptly when a scruffy man approaches the cashregister, pulls out a gun and demands all the money.• She's wearing that scruffy old sweater again.• Old silverheels have been abandoned under a work table in favor of scruffypenny loafers.• a scruffysweatshirt
Originscruffy
(1800-1900)scruff“messy person”((19-21 centuries)), from scurf; → SCURVY