The owners in that situation do not tidy up the dock but leave it scruffy, with the maximum dust and dirt.
Can we be assured that these rather scruffy amendments are a true and accurate record of the proceedings in another place?
He had literally signed that dirty, scruffy sheet of paper and had not looked at how many noughts there were on it.
It may have been a scruffy house and that person may have had many children.
Certainly in my part of the world there are old carriages and pretty scruffy stations, but the numbers of people using rail travel are increasing.
Responsible parents will not want to send their children to a school whose pupils look scruffy and are noisy and badly behaved in public.
Many of the young visitors are scruffy, most of them are over-hairy, and they have attracted the most hostile criticism.
Some of it is scruffy — it is unnecessary to have those childish posters and political advertisements stuck up.
