"straggly" in the adjective sense
1. sprawling, straggling, rambling, straggly
spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly
"sprawling handwriting"
"straggling branches"
"straggly hair"
2. straggly
growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly
"straggly ivy"
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