Adjective (2)
she was a scrappy girl despite—or, perhaps, because of—her small size
a pair of scrappy movie critics who can never agree on anything
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The stretch featured scrappy defense and a stream of points from Sykes and Carter (who combined to score 10 straight), a lob dunk from Washington and a 3-pointer from Carter that made it 20-8 with 4:56 left in the half.—Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2024 Amy Winehouse was a scrappy Londoner with a palpable persona and a soulful voice that put her contemporaries to shame.—Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 18 May 2024 And so the scrappy kid from Atlantic City, N.J., my world changed.—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 15 May 2024 Still, there’s no clear executive to take the place of Musk, who’s widely seen as the driver behind its transformation from a scrappy Silicon Valley startup to the world’s most valuable automaker.—Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 15 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for scrappy
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