Qualities
Synonyms for scruffy
The synonym for scruffy recorded in this bank is seedy, in the sense "shabby and untidy". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for scruffy
- seedyadjective, in the sense "shabby and untidy"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for scruffy.
shabby and untidy
A surge of ragged scruffy children.
The true synonym
seedy
Same sentence, swapped: A surge of ragged seedy children.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- measly
- abominable
- smoky
Where scruffy turns up in the game
scruffy is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play scruffy
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so scruffy reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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