scrabbly
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
— Once they were young and little and rather "scrabbly." They were given to loud laughter, to whispers, to scribbling pictures, and to mischievous glances.
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Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.
— My mount struggled up the last few feet of scrabbly rock.
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Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.
— The button was a bit awkward for some people's thumbs - big, beefy thumbs found it on the small side, while long, elegant nails found it rather scrabbly.
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Scribbly.
— The lines of the devices were very scrabbly, and the blue was muddy, and the red was a streaky pink, and Eddy looked very doubtfully at them;
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Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.
— After a rather scrabbly lunch, eaten with all the children sprawling over the table — they are brick red in colour and have tight rings of black hair and beady eyes — I walked out with my host and hostess in the rain...
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Of poor quality; poorly maintained.
— He remembered it well — the scrabbly coloured boats, drawn on to the shingle, painted and chipped with religious legends, the big kerosene lamps, the black nets.
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Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.
— The warm climate must make those qualities grow as abundantly as the vegetation — and all from a scrabbly soil.
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Stunted.
— We followed a well-worn trail that led across windswept slopes, punctuated with scrabbly vegetation and weathered boulders and dotted with occasional stone-and-mud huts with thatched roofs.
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Sparse and scraggly.
— Seen in the darkness, it was that of an evil-looking, thick-set savage, with a forbidding countenance dotted unevenly with scrabbly wisps of beard.
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Impoverished, hardscrabble
— And there was the whole valley spread out down below us, the brown river looking blue and the fields that were so rusty-poor, close up, a fine green from that distance, and even our house with its scrabbly yard looking like a pretty little farm.
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Rough, poor and uncultured.
— The modern mariner who fells his shipmate with a blow of the fist is vastly more interesting a study when he is theoretically one of the highest products of our vaunted civilization than when he is just a scrabbly deck-hand under Drake.
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Having a rough texture; scratchy.
— I 'd hate to feel their scrabbly feet, wouldn't you?
词源
From scrabble + -y.
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