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But if Grant speaks through jaws aristocratically locked, his William Thacker is meant to embody a scruffy, downwardly mobile lifestyle; as a consequence of his integrity, he must share a flat with a cretinously vulgar couch potato called Spike (Rhys Ifans) and face a stream of dim customers who refuse to accept that his bookshop carries neither Dickens nor Grisham.
The movie, directed by Michael Corrente from a script he wrote with the Farrellys, is not in the whacking, gross-out school of the brothers' other projects, but it shares with them a tender regard for the scruffy outsider, the yearning misfit.
Slattery’s (Capel Street) is a bit scruffy, but has perhaps the city’s best traditional music.
Just west of Ciutadella, Cala Blanes and the vast area of villas and hotels near Cala Forcat make a self -contained holiday town, though their two often scruffy little beaches can hardly cope with the summer influx.
In effect, the name was an ironic compliment, a friendly jest passed from one scruffy and uncouth people (the traders themselves were hardly known for their dainty manicures and designer coiffures) to another.