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raggy

American  
[rag-ee] / ˈræg i /

adjective

raggier, raggiest
  1. ragged; akin to or made up of rags.

  2. influenced by, characteristic of, or akin to the musical genre ragtime.


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He savors and shares tiny triumphs: “Before kicking off, he took a moment to rub the bills between his fingers, enjoying their raggy suppleness.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2021

All around are women in black dresses, partying with guys in seersuckers or dudes in raggy tees, proving the Karl Lagerfeld maxim that “one is never overdressed or underdressed with a little black dress.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2016

In the best of her '50s work, like Blue Level, 1955, the play of raggy shapes and roughly sliced strips of burlap has an impacted pictorial density.

From Time Magazine Archive

To them, Maeve would simply say, in her lilting voice, “That’s my raggy tree. She’s not a hawthorn, but she’ll do just fine.”

From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate

Patiently, again and again, she would explain how in her old home, leaving wishes on a raggy tree was a time-honored tradition.

From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate

What of it—won't I learn, though, and the raggiest ever!

From Plays by Aleksandr Nicolaevich Ostrovsky

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