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Definition of Scrappier
1. scrappy [adj] - See also: scrappy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrappier
| scrat scratch-built |
Literary usage of Scrappier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fortnightly Review (1871)
"quicker mode of travelling has come in, a hastier mode of reading, and a scrappier
mode of writing. Fifty years ago, when Mr. Senior began to write, ..."
2. Mr. George Jean Nathan Presents by George Jean Nathan (1917)
"... a modern mixed audience, had to be well-knit and closely consecutive — and
along came the fragmentary Arnold Bennett and even scrappier Tristan Bernard. ..."
3. The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot by Walter Bagehot, Russell Barrington (1915)
"A quicker mode of travelling has come in, a hastier mode of reading, and a
scrappier mode of writing. Fifty years ago, when Mr. Senior began to write, ..."
4. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1905)
"Folks nowadays seem crazy for scraps, and the scrappier the better. It's wonderful
how some things go. Look at that new thing, Dewdrops. ..."
5. Life and Letters of Thomas Hodgkin by Thomas Hodgkin (1918)
"through our much scrappier and less elegantly expressed -letters, you will feel
that there is under all something un- transitory and eternal, ..."
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