Adjective, : a scratchy record. ,a scratchy drawing. ,He plays a scratchy game. ,a scratchy woolen sweater. ,scratchy bushes.    From Dictionary.com. 

The links of his mail were rusty, and rustled scratchily about him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

But the voice of Zhukov came through quite clearly, though a bit scratchily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dance Of Desire]

'What do all these figures mean?' she asked, scratchily pointing to the card.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penalty]

Before that, your ancestors were scratchily transcribed entries in leather-bound ledgers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free - Are we? Rafael Behr spouts cockwhaffle on CCTV liberty.] Reference

It is the kind of memory that is burnished on the brain and he began scratchily, as if the years between those fixtures had not taken place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strauss Must Hope Pitch Will Turn] Reference

Certainly he went down to the post moving no more scratchily than the others, and he lined up in the stalls and bounded out of them with no trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smokescreen]

Jenkins, when directly asked, said scratchily that Pitts had laryngitis, which was disgraceful as it put the whole Maths department's timetable out of order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice shy]

When I joined him he was already busy in the small side-room that with its dim cream walls and scratchily polished floor had an air of being everyone's poor relation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice shy]

A global alliance of the centre-left is (scratchily) back in business.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference

I'm not scratchily ambitious, but I'm not afraid of putting myself forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

She began to write scratchily and in a moment or two tossed another remark at him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Died in the Wool]

Cook started scratchily and he was fortunate when a cut off Mohammad Asif flew through the slips.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

Pietersen was clearly hampered, both while batting scratchily for innings of 32 and 44, and in the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Nought not out overnight, Cook started scratchily on Friday and he was fortunate when a cut off Mohammad Asif flew through the slips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

This was painted in 1564, Michelangelo's death year, and Bruegel has signed and dated it, scratchily, in Roman numerals, at bottom right.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

'Look,' said Taffy, drawing very hard and rather scratchily, 'now I've drawn you, and I've put the spear that Daddy wants into your hand, just to remind you that you're to bring it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just So Stories] Reference

Nought not out overnight, Cook started scratchily on Friday in overcast conditions that threatened to provide plenty of assistance for Pakistan's swing bowlers and was fortunate when.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

Jaran’s throat itched scratchily at trying to shout loud enough to be heard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Together « A Fly in Amber] Reference

Here’s the symbolism: my throat was annoyingly, scratchily sore for the entire week that I was editing the eulogy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Author! Author! » 2010 » March] Reference

(more commonly) glazed paste, lightly and often scratchily engraved: hard stone seals finely engraved: flattened spheroids in steatite with Hittite symbols on both faces, inscriptions being often garbled.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference

Yaaaaaay (she said scratchy-scratchily).    From Wordnik.com.  [misspinkkate Diary Entry] Reference

It yielded, but only a little and scratchily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ship Of Magic]

15 in 41 Twenty20 matches, and he started scratchily, barely looking at the bowler's approach initially.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloggers.Pakistan] Reference

Sadly, itchily, scratchily undeterred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne Nahm] Reference

The first room, in which Van Gogh can be seen, at the age of twenty-seven, taking up art seriously for the first time in his life, with the hope of becoming a professional illustrator, is especially hard on the eyes as he minutely, scratchily renders grasses, trees, and the undersides of clouds (A Marsh, 1881) and painstakingly explores with wash and chalk the stiff poses and creased clothing of Dutch folk engaged in domestic tasks (Boy with a Sickle, Woman Sewing, both 1881).    From Wordnik.com.  [Determined Spirit] Reference