(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.
Unity
Definition:
(n.) The state of being one; oneness.
(n.) Concord; harmony; conjunction; agreement; uniformity; as, a unity of proofs; unity of doctrine.
(n.) Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity.
(n.) In dramatic composition, one of the principles by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation are preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition.
(n.) Such a combination of parts as to constitute a whole, or a kind of symmetry of style and character.
(n.) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(2) All reported studies have documented small 5 to 10 mm Hg decrements of blood pressure with dietary supplementation with these fatty acids and conversion of the ratio of polyunsaturated to saturated fatty acids toward unity.
(3) "It is really a time for cooperation and unity," he said, adding that recent events had shown the need for Iraqis – Sunni, Shia and Kurds – to work together.
(4) Like most anthems it’s intended to create unity in the face of adversity, coming from a time when America was a new country trying to forge its identity.
(5) The present results indicate that R will be quite close to unity and therefore the performance capability would theoretically be independent of body mass.
(6) He joined the Coldstream Guards, while Debo and her mother went to Berne to collect Unity, who had put a bullet through her brain but survived, severely damaged; they coped with Unity's resultant moodiness and incontinence through the first year of war.
(7) Limits are a relief, because they concentrate the drama and free the writer from the torture of choice, as Aristotle knew when he advised playwrights to preserve "the unities" by telling one story in one place over a single day.
(8) Generals who have mutinied have seized the capital of South Sudan's largest state, Jonglei, and its main oil-producing area, Unity State.
(9) Values of K' less than unity lead to negative selective interaction.
(10) The death of an adoptive parent resulted in relative risks of death in the adoptees that were close to unity for all causes, natural causes, and infections, 3.02 (0.72 to 12.8) for vascular causes, and 5.16 (1.20 to 22.2) for cancers.
(11) Yellow signs swing from lampposts urging citizens to “hold high the great banner of national unity”.
(12) The rationality of subdividing the tumours of this type into separate entries of different onconosological unities is discussed.
(13) I am not a Muslim but I see that the cover has been read as yet more provocation, even an undoing of the unity of the marches in Paris and other cities.
(14) In view of the fact that neurology and psychiatry in childhood and adolescence necessarily form a unity, the proportion of neurological diseases is analysed on the basis of the in-patients of five clinic years of a pediatric-neuropsychiatric university hospital.
(15) For each indicated educational--motivating unity parents have to be completely prepared for better and more complete than usual piling of facts and presenting in front of them unsolvable tasks and obligations.
(16) Coronary venous ligations were done at various levels and also thromboflebitis at various levels, in order to demonstrate the function of the venous drainage of the heart, as a "venous-unity" and with a great compensating capacity.
(17) "Let us arm ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness," Malala said.
(18) This the unity of the functional and morphological aspects can prove to be especially lucrative in the research of endocrinology.
(19) The intent is to move beyond the issue of issues and to discover some sense of unity.
(20) 2 February 2010: Papandreou makes TV appeal for unity over financial crisis Greece announces a wider austerity package, including a freeze on public sector pay and higher taxes for low and middle-income households.