What's the difference between feisty and scrappy?

Feisty


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The movie, adapted from Mandela's autobiography, shows Madikizela-Mandela as a feisty young woman who falls in love with the struggle activist, only to be left to raise their children alone when he is arrested and jailed.
  • (2) I have met brave, feisty writers, publishers and translators here in Turkey who will take on this challenge and not be intimidated, but how many others will decide that this is not a risk that they want or are able to take?"
  • (3) She isn't the first wannabe pop girl with intimations of "edge" and "darkness" in her songs to emerge this year , although she might be the last (hello, it's November), but the question is: does she bring anything new to the feisty, lusty-voiced electro-girl genre?
  • (4) But axing Hazel Blears, the feisty communities secretary, would be more difficult.
  • (5) They weren’t exactly fashionable, but they were feisty, they were sexy – and I think it related to the fabric of the city.
  • (6) In fact, for feisty, you have drink one of those pints with a submerged shot glass.
  • (7) They say you cannot please everyone, but referee Michael Oliver succeeded in pleasing neither Roberto Martínez nor Garry Monk in this feisty encounter which belied the mid-table comfort Everton and Swansea currently enjoy.
  • (8) Goodness knows how spiky things might have turned had Cheick Tioté, Pardew’s feisty Ivorian midfield enforcer, not been injured.
  • (9) A few minutes around the corner is ORSO , a 2014 coffee “laboratory” serving feisty arabica and robusta from around the globe.
  • (10) And it was not long before she and feisty Hefina in a tour de force performance became spokeswomen for their community.
  • (11) When I'd met Zaria, just before her operation, I was struck by the energy of this funny, feisty, beautiful young medical student with a tattoo and bundles of raven hair.
  • (12) In a wide-ranging interview in Broadcasting House the day after the review was announced, a feisty director general admits that the recommendations, to be delivered early next year, are likely to lead to "narrower services".
  • (13) It described Gordon as feisty and outspoken but often "highly dependent upon the men in her life".
  • (14) As the train clatters downtown, I allow myself to feel feisty, and just a little bit fond.
  • (15) A Forsa survey shows that the SPD has gained three points from a week earlier to 29% after the selection of the feisty, plain-speaking 65-year-old.
  • (16) A feisty and inspiring young head was resolutely tackling the school's problems to give his pupils a better chance.
  • (17) McCain cracked jokes and gave a feisty performance as he endorsed Romney.
  • (18) Just think of the hoardings: feisty women with attitude, sporting magnificent fingernails and vaguely dressed as St Mary Magdalene, are seen tearing at Pontius Pilate’s face – someone like Nigel Havers, looking saucy.” Christ’s Jerusalem Monopoly “My kids have a Star Wars one,” the permanent secretary tells a minister irritably.
  • (19) And there was this feisty meeting with Brazil in 1970.
  • (20) He also writes a feisty blog for the Financial Times - a recent example was headed "Confessions of a crass Keynesian".

Scrappy


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They took 15% in 2010, with the other parties caught in a scrappy three-way struggle in which the winning Lib Dems came in below 30%.
  • (2) We worked awfully hard for this Premier League status and we don’t want to give it up.” Gylfi Sigurdsson’s 61st-minute strike – his sixth goal in 10 games – settled a scrappy Liberty Stadium contest that failed to spark into life until the Iceland international finished from substitute Leroy Fer’s pass.
  • (3) The results may have looked scrappy and provisional but, coupled with initially affordable land prices, this laissez-faire planning strategy seems to have worked, even if much land has since been redeveloped.
  • (4) If American voters (or journalists) still expect their candidates to be – in the words of a popular musical – young, scrappy and hungry, they have not been paying attention.
  • (5) Norwich’s play was more scrappy than usual but they looked the more dangerous side on the occasions when they did manage to piece moves together.
  • (6) "It was sheer quality and class to win what was a scrappy game.
  • (7) Enough that the Nation have been slow to embrace a team of scrappy rough and tumble hard working bearded ballplayers that won 97 games and crushed opponents with their relentless offense.
  • (8) The Black Keys are not underdogs any more, but they maintain a scrappiness of ethos.
  • (9) The following day, outside his church office window, children played on swings in a scrappy playground as he prepared to host yesterday's funeral of Timothy Thomas.
  • (10) 8.29pm BST 42 min: The games got a bit scrappy in recent minutes and is being punctuated by a series of niggly fouls.
  • (11) Inverdale provoked outrage when he said that women's champion Marion Bartoli was "never going to be a looker, you'll never be a Sharapova so you have to be scrappy and fight?
  • (12) Scrappy, barely deserved, victories are hardly Wenger's hallmark but this one delivered an important message to Manchester City and company.
  • (13) 4.55am BST Spurs 95-95 Heat - 5:00 remaining OT Graham Parker (@KidWeil) @HunterFelt Hang on...I just had a scrappy midfield slog to write about.
  • (14) It's been a tight, fairly scrappy start from both sides.
  • (15) 2.04am GMT Final thoughts Was a scrappy affair, enlivened during that brief burst of second half goals.
  • (16) It's all getting a little scrappy again, which will suit Chile down to the ground.
  • (17) The X-Wings are, of course, the scrappy space fighters that the good guys destroy Death Stars in.
  • (18) 6.38pm BST 77 mins: The game has become a bit scrappy now, as tension and tiredness perhaps overcome the players a bit.
  • (19) A French ballistic missile launched from the left foot of Zinedine Zidane on the stroke of half-time proved enough to settle a final that mixed some scrappy, foul-ridden football with touches of the sublime and was rarely short of dramatic impact.
  • (20) O'Sullivan, who had won the afternoon session 5-3, took the first frame of the evening, a scrappy affair in which both players had a number of chances.