Usually means: Less tidy, more unkempt appearance.
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  1. scruffier: Merriam-Webster
  2. scruffier: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scruffier: Collins English Dictionary
  4. scruffier: Vocabulary.com
  5. scruffier: Wordnik
  6. scruffier: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. scruffier: Wiktionary
  8. scruffier: Dictionary.com
  9. scruffier: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. scruffier: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See scruffy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Scruffy)

adjective:  Untidy in appearance; scrubby; shabby.
adjective:  Scurfy.
noun:  (informal) An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that intelligence is too complicated (or computationally intractable) to be solved with the sorts of homogeneous system favoured by the "neats".
noun:  Name for a dog.
▸ Also see scruffy


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