scrappy

1 In July, in a corner of the Baltimore Sun building, one floor above the Sun newsroom, about a dozen staffers of the smaller, scrappier Baltimore City Paper gathered for an editorial meeting.

2 In between, he played one of his strangest and scrappiest roles, as an ex-convict wandering the dusty roads of Depression-era Mississippi.

3 It feels as though streaming’s phase one – a wild west where scrappy underdog services attracted big-league talent by offering to realise all their weird ideas that television would not touch – is over.

4 She made her career by enacting a series of evolving personas, from scrappy street kid to debauched virgin to domineering seductress.

5 Within a few years he and his scrappy rock ’n’ roll combo conquered first Hamburg, and then London, the rest of Britain, America and the world.

6 Together, they make scrappy and dissolute music with more action than density; melodies break down quickly, but the band hardly ever loses its conviction or cohesion.

7 “You don’t get the luxury of the cruise ship — you get the scrappy ride of the motorcycle — but you get the flexibility to be able to twist and turn as things go.”

8 The instruments are hand-played, the vocals are scratchy growls, and the songs revisit Mr. Richards’s favorite idioms — blues, country, reggae, Stonesy rock — for some scrappy storytelling. The album was recorded on analog tape.

9 But as happens with scrappy entrepreneurial business competitors, in contrast to government bureaucracies, Bezos and Musk were goading each other on.

10 This was the height of the scrappy “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls” era of Hollywood, so, aptly enough, Mr. Camp’s own career narrative was that of a maverick independent.

11 With recent hits "Divergent" and the "Hunger Games" franchise, the Santa Monica company has moved beyond its role as a scrappy upstart and is now outperforming some of its old-line competitors.

12 Miles of sand and dirt filled the landscape, scrappy desert plants and the Kingston and Avawatz mountain ranges rising out of the flatness.

13 Many questioned whether the Whitney would make a successful new start in that scrappier part of Manhattan, having become so closely linked with the Breuer.

14 Publishers now produce slick YouTube trailers to promote new novels, and scrappy journals have begun innovative video series, like Electric Literature's wacky animations based on short-story excerpts.

15 The pandemic made us all get a little scrappy.”

16 If the performance, especially from the chorus, was sometimes thick textured and scrappy, there were rewards as well.

17 They adapt and for their scrappy ability to adapt we ought to have nothing but admiration but instead we see their meager digs, their threadbare clothes, their rusty cars and ask, what’s wrong with them?

18 Mostly this season struggled because there is nothing scrappy about being the president, and the show was always its most interesting when Elizabeth could justly play by her own rules.

19 Will Tysons Corner cultivate the type of scrappy entrepreneurialism and creativity that produces a Busboys & Poets?

20 After just a few descriptions of their scrappy, joyful, sex-and-drug-fueled sorties, you can pretty much tell where this ride will end.

1 爱吵架的

ugly pugnacious vixenish

2 积极的

fast-stepping positive active aggressive constructive go-ahead hard-hitting

3 不完整

defective imperfect fractional uncompleted

4 残余的

odd residual remnant residuary remanent

5 杂乱无章

skimble-skamble random rambling amorphous untidy rigmarole littery dissy anyway anyhow litter muddle welter all anyhow in the rough disorganized shapeless helter-skelter unsystematic higgledy-piggledy unsystematically shapelessness mare's nest skimble-scamble haywire amorphism

6 支离破碎

incoherent unstuck inconsecutive sky-high incoherence limb from limb fragmentary fragmentarily come to smash go to smash

7 坚决

strong firm constant absolute intent determined decisive uncompromising resolute emphatic decided resolved all-in unshaken strongly resolutely scrappily scrappiness set face like a flint with both feet

8 粗陋的

stark

9 好争斗的

warlike

10 不完全

partial incomplete defective deficient sketchy nearly partially

11 剩余

over remainder leftover surplus remnant residuary remanent plus heel shank leaving reversion overmuch residuum overplus surplusage overmeasure remain

12 敢作敢为

adventurous take courage in both hands

13 残余

odd residual remnant residuary remanent remains remanet end remain rest balance residue

14 强硬的

strong uncompromising

15 不完全的

partial incomplete defective deficient sketchy

16 不吸引人的

unsightly uninteresting unappealing uninviting

17 好打架的

dukes-up

18 不完整的

spotty incomplete fragmentary defective imperfect fractional uncompleted

19 好斗

fighting fierce combatant feisty belligerent combative bellicose tush pugnacious bristly trigger-happy truculent stroppy fire-eating gamy scrappiness militant belligerence pugnacity bellicosity aggressive truculence aggression militancy

20 敢作敢为的

adventurous

21 杂凑

miscellany

22 碎料

outthrow cabbage trimming sliver

23 片断的

fragmented bitty fragmentary snippy snippety piecemeal

24 片断

fragmented bitty fragmentary snippy snippety by-end episode fraction scrap fragment snippet snatch snip skit gobbet piecemeal catch sequence cameo morceau

25 零碎

broken fractional snippy oddly fractional tower

26 剩余的

over remainder leftover surplus remnant residuary remanent

27 混乱的

mad confusing confused chaotic troubled turbulent tumultuous disorderly wayward woolly disjointed disordered muddled jumbled topsy-turvy shambolic addled out of joint

28 胡乱拼凑

cobble

29 不连贯的

noncoherent broken abrupt rambling disjointed unconnected discontinuous desultory gappy staccato disconnected incoherent choppy inconsequential inconsequent inconsecutive

30 散乱的

scattered unruly disheveled straggling scraggly straggly

31 好争论的

contentious combative argumentative truculent

32 好斗的

fighting fierce combatant feisty belligerent combative bellicose tush pugnacious bristly trigger-happy truculent stroppy fire-eating gamy militant mean aggressive agonistic ass-kicking pugilistic

33 混乱

mad confusing confused chaotic troubled turbulent tumultuous disorderly wayward woolly disjointed disordered muddled jumbled topsy-turvy shambolic addled chaos disruption flap scramble melee turmoil tangle turbulence entropy whirl muddle disarray tumult bewilderment hubbub tailspin rough-and-tumble foul-up balls-up out of joint

34 斗志旺盛的

combative

35 坚决的

strong firm constant absolute intent determined decisive uncompromising resolute emphatic decided resolved all-in unshaken stout steadfast valiant insistent stout-hearted

36 好打架

dukes-up carry a chip on shoulder

37 散乱

scattered unruly disheveled straggling scraggly straggly clutter dispersion dispersal litter in a litter all over the shop

38 杂乱

amorphous promiscuous pell-mell mess confusion litter clutter tumble bastard muddle shambles mix-up balls balls-up all over the place

39 剩余物

pickings leavings arisings over remain waste scrap remainder leftover picking holdover lave guck spilth

40 不连贯

noncoherent broken abrupt rambling disjointed unconnected discontinuous desultory gappy scrappily discontinuity scrappiness disjoint choppy disconnected incoherent inconsequential staccato inconsequent inconsecutive incoherence inconsequence

41 零碎的

broken fractional snippy fractional tower

42 不整洁

messy unkempt untidy dishevelled bedraggled mess be get into a state be in into a state out of order

43 不整洁的

ragged scruffy unkempt untidy dishevelled slovenly messy bedraggled

44 碎片

fractional clastic tatters flinders smithereens patch fraction fragment shred shatter snippet shard shiver rubble snip splinter detritus sherd matchwood sippet

45 杂乱无章的

skimble-skamble random rambling amorphous untidy rigmarole littery dissy in the rough disorganized shapeless helter-skelter unsystematic higgledy-piggledy skimble-scamble haywire

46 杂乱的

amorphous promiscuous bastard busy messy motley unorganized untrimmed

47 碎片的

fractional clastic

48 支离破碎的

incoherent unstuck inconsecutive fragmentary choppy disjointed bitty

49 积极

fast-stepping positive active aggressive constructive go-ahead hard-hitting

50 强硬

strong uncompromising strongly crustily intransigence