(1) The press remains scrappy and defiant, but its skepticism about lawyers has been embraced by the mainstream.

(2) While it may have been a scrappy game, this performance was not riddled with the disappointment of the display at Fratton Park.

(3) The result was a rather scrappy , disjointed affair, where space in midfield was at a premium.

(4) This was a scrappy game with countless basic mistakes.

(5) Certainly, the first 45 minutes were scrappy , untidy and bereft of anything resembling skilful football.

(6) It was scrappy and messy but ultimately triumphant as York City Knights progressed to the last 16 of the Challenge Cup.

(7) Kilmarnock fared little better as the match descended into a scrappy affair of bad passing, close marking and bloodthirsty challenges.

(8) What she knew about China then was limited to the Great Wall and some scrappy information learned from school textbooks.

(9) However, there was nothing scrappy about the wonderfully executed goal that finally broke the deadlock at a critical juncture.

(10) The general impression was of a scrappy and superficial campaign, facing a coherent and single-minded Government.

(11) Speeches and letters survive entire, though the other fragments are scrappy .

(12) But the trouble is that referees don't like his style - he is scrappy and sometimes untidy, and is not a puncher.

(13) Samples and drum loops provide the beat while scrappy guitars and synths get the crowd jumping to the feminist/pro-gay lyrics.

(14) The material is subject to some wildly scrappy editing, with incidental characters brought in and summarily dropped.

(15) The appealing fragments are short and scrappy , the unappealing prose verbose and sometimes impenetrable.

(16) They like scrappy players and are willing to put up with temperament that goes along with it.

(17) A pair has made a scrappy , twiggy nest around six metres from the ground in one of Williams' pine trees.

(18) This is a lean, scrappy , pit-bull of an album.

(19) Jimmy sees himself as a feisty, scrappy , still up for it, 75-year-old bastard.

(20) Despite Ruth's goal, however, play continued to be scrappy with few scoring chances created at either end.