ragging
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ragging
Example Sentences
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Ragging on each other’s professional decisions and romantic entanglements, the pair come on like the Dope Queens of 1931.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2017
Ragging the playwright's vanity and the critic's venom, kidding the knee breeches off the bombast that then held the stage, The Critic is frequently amusing but fatally long.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ragging in debate, blunt to the point of rudeness, honest to the point of indiscretion, he holds his leadership by sheer intellectual prestige.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Ragging Miss Gascoyne" was a favourite pastime of hers, and one which afforded much sport to her applauders, if not to the victim of her jokes.
From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Davis, Stanley
With invectives harsh and stinging She abused those youthful dancers Who were over fond of 'swinging' Partners in the Kitchen Lancers; Ragging, as a ballroom sport, Made Mamma get up and snort!
From The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times) by Graham, Harry
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