What's the difference between scrawny and scrubby?
Scrawny
Definition:
(a.) Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the last pictures made public of his time in captivity, over three years ago, Bergdahl looks scrawny and uncertain in brown Afghan shirt and trousers, standing beside an insurgent commander before he is blindfolded and led away.
(2) In the first film, he wasn't that hot: long hair, bit scrawny, at least a foot shorter than all the other men in Forks.
(3) Art critics since Freud's first shows in the 1940s have had difficulties situating his achievement; the common solution has been to apply adjectives to the painted subjects in a way that reflects little more than personal taste, the writers telling readers whether the person portrayed was bored or intimidated, scrawny or obese, the paint slathered, crumbly or miraculously plastic.
(4) A scrawny black dog wanders into the road, sizes up his human visitors and scampers back into the woods.
(5) Headline writers dubbed him “the face of protest” – a scrawny Hong Kong student who led tens of thousands of demonstrators out onto the streets in a historic challenge to Beijing.
(6) 'They're kind of like punks,' Clark says of the scrawny kids from Compton, 'with the tight jeans and painted shoes.
(7) Scrawny coyotes, living on blue-bellied lizards and rodents, glare with yellow suspicious eyes at passing cars, and black vultures with scaly red heads and resentful glares scatter up from feasts of roadkill.
(8) The nation that was pleading for an italian defeat just six days ago is now pinning its scrawny hopes on an Italian victory: anything other than that outcome today will confirm England's elimination before the group stage has even ended.
(9) Like many of the great old-time comedians ( Ken Dodd or Tommy Cooper , say), Carr has got a comical face; gappy teeth, big specs, scrawny hair, bewildered expression.
(10) The day of the Vivaldi concert has arrived and the children stroll into the Friary – scrawny, scally, mischievous – and scratch out a square dance with gusto on their violins and what seem to be hugely outsized cellos.
(11) At the top was a scrawny oak with a creviced scar – part of the mouse-sized Bechstein’s main roost.
(12) The boy is described as anything but menacing – rather, as withdrawn, antisocial, even "meek", according to an official at his high school, who explained that Adam was only assigned a psychologist because a scrawny, cringing loner might be tormented by peers.
(13) He was too scrawny and shortsighted to become a footballer, but he was a promising actor, and his schoolmates voted him Most Popular Boy of his year.
(14) And it is a lot more than George Osborne's scrawny £1 valuation of the cost of separation.
(15) Taking on one of cinema's most high-profile roles might be a daunting prospect, but his has not quite been a rise from nowhere: 2010 has already been a stellar year for Garfield, whose star has gone supernova with a series of roles that must leave well-established British TV peers like John Simm, David Tennant and Ben Whishaw cursing the scrawny twentysomething.
(16) Some are scrawny creatures, rib cages pressing against flea-bitten skin, tumours flapping as they nose through rubbish carts.
(17) It worked: they won the league as all their scrawny, tuckered-out rivals faltered along the closing stretch.
(18) Back on the side of a road half an hour’s drive outside of Caynabo, Nuur Mohamed says he has been reduced to begging for food in the town and trying to catch scrawny dik-dik antelope by night.
Scrubby
Definition:
(superl.) Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur.
Example Sentences:
(1) Built on a scrubby ridge of limestone pavement, the houses of Khirbet Susiya are closely overlooked by a neighbouring Israeli settlement built on land expropriated from the villagers – illegal under international law – and, unlike the Palestinian village, connected to public services.
(2) Photograph: Landmark Trust It’s supposed to be an easy, hour-and-a-half walk but on the boat we sit in summer dresses and sandals watching what seems to be an awful lot of scrubby, mountainous terrain float by.
(3) Only during the last few weeks of the conflict did the world begin to take notice of events in the rough, scrubby plains of northern Sri Lanka.
(4) A few suspiciously straight lines in a corner of a 1951 aerial photograph showing acres of featureless scrubby heath have led archaeologists to a lost first world war landscape.
(5) In a terrain that was recently farmland and is now a butchered waste, the most depressing detail is the featureless, scrubby horizon.
(6) And that is what he has done by turning an insignificant protest in a scrubby little park into a national emergency.
(7) About four minutes in, it switches to Bergdahl waiting for release in a battered pickup truck in scrubby wilderness just off a dirt road.
(8) Behind the campus of the Hebrew University a scrubby hill drops steeply to the East Jerusalem village of Isawiya.
(9) Where the scrubby fields of central Gaza meet the Israeli border fence, there is a locked gate.
(10) As you fly west over Texas, the lush pastureland and whitewashed farms gradually give way to scrubby hills dotted with trailer-homes - and then eventually to the desert, inhabited solely by clusters of oil wells.
(11) It was scrubby and nicotine-hued for months last year after thousands of occupying protesters erected tents, noodle stalls and pop-up hair salons during efforts to topple the elected government.
(12) I didn’t think they’d want to come out here.” For “here” is not the leafy London suburb of the same name but an isolated and scrubby corner of a British military base at Dhekelia, on Cyprus’s south-eastern coast.
(13) The returning refugees whose makeshift homes are scattered in the scrubby forest around the A9 exist on food rations and occasional days of paid labour.
(14) On Friday, at Central Islip’s vast federal courthouse, which rises like a white edifice in scrubby woodland five miles from where the murders took place, President Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions, restated his commitment to helping the police battle street gangs.
(15) In an enormous clay pit set in scrubby woodland outside the hamlet of Tomasica, British, American and Bosnian forensic experts from the ICMP, along with counterparts from Bosnia's Missing Persons Institute, are digging up hundreds of muddy, grey-brown corpses.
(16) In the summer, Davies says, the flock ditches the scrubby shelter of the odd cluster of eucalypts to follow the turbine’s shade, stretching out along the shadow cast by the 80m pole like a woolly sundial.
(17) There's a group of people seen from far off in the scrubby brown landscape.
(18) It took them 10 days to reach Pathai, a scrubby village in remote central Jonglei.
(19) Boyce was narrowly the bookies' favourite for the prize, ahead of painter George Shaw, who chronicles the scrubby, dilapidated suburban streets of his native Midlands.
(20) In a terrain that was recently farmland, the most depressing detail is the featureless, scrubby horizon These dispirited infantrymen hardly even have the luxury of a trench; they huddle in what looks like a gash left behind by a shell, and may have been told – as were many of their colleagues – to use clods of earth as camouflage, burying themselves alive.