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词汇 scrappy
释义 scrappy
adjective
uk /ˈskræp.i/ us /ˈskræp.i/

scrappyadjective (NOT IMPRESSIVE)


UK
badly organized or put together: 不连贯的;散乱的;杂凑的
I'm afraid your last essay was a very scrappy piece of work.很遗憾,你上一篇文章写得很没有条理。
We were scrappy in the first half and deserved to lose.我们在上半场表现毫无章法,输了是应该的。
untidy and not very attractive or well developed: 不整洁的;不吸引人的
They live on a scrappy street in a poor part of town.他们住在镇上贫困地段的一条杂乱的街道上。
a patch of scrappy bushes by the front door大门边的一块杂乱的树丛
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Dirty & untidy
all over the placeidiom
Augean
besmeared
bespattered
bloodied
look like something the cat brought/dragged inidiom
look like/as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwardsidiom
manky
messily
messy
sluttish
sluttishly
soiled
sordid
sordidly
unsterilized
untidily
untidy
untrimmed
unwashed

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Not attractive to look at

scrappyadjective (DETERMINED)


US
having a strong, determined character, and willing to argue or fight for what you want: 爱吵架的,好斗的
a scrappy little kid who won't take no for an answer从不妥协的好斗的小孩
Big companies are losing market share to scrappy smaller operators.大公司的市场份额正被敢打敢拼的小经营商抢走。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Bad-tempered
argumentative
bad-tempered
be hell on wheelsidiom
be like a bear with a sore headidiom
be spoiling for a fightidiom
grouchiness
grouchy
grumpily
grumpiness
grumpy
pettish
pettishly
petulance
petulancy
petulant
surlily
surliness
testily
testiness
testy

Related word


scrappily

scrappy | American Dictionary


scrappy
adjective[ -er/-est only ]
 approvingus/ˈskræp·i/
very competitive and willing to oppose others without fear to achieve something:
They were a scrappy team – you had to go all out to beat them.

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The old complex and rather scrappy arrangements will come to an end and will be replaced by a new unified scheme.
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At the present time, it is very scrappy, but it is growing up.
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A winding up speech which attempts to answer some of the points raised in a debate is bound to be somewhat disjointed and scrappy.
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We made other plans in a spasmodic and scrappy way, but they have to a large extent failed.
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My speech will be short, but it will be very scrappy as it will lack continuity.
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There have been no policy discussions other than a rather scrappy working party report.
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There was a proper administration in one case and only a scrappy administration in the other.
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At present the whole situation is very scrappy.
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I feel sure that any discussion will inevitably be very scrappy.
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Admittedly, our information on this matter is extremely scrappy and inadequate.
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All we have before us is one scrappy flimsy piece of paper with 11 figures of maximum rates set out on it.
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The effect of the block grant will be to make educational provision scrappy and uneven.
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The national health service is the only major institution in the country that stores basic data on fairly scrappy bits of paper that have a tendency to get lost.
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Their fields look pretty scrappy.
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We have had a rather scrappy debate.
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