shaggy
adjective
covered with or having long, rough hair.
shagginess
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a word derived from
shaggy.
Example Sentences
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They’re dead-set on excising any shagginess that doesn’t fit their hidebound worldview, attacking textbooks and museums that dare to push beyond a straightforward explanation.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
The rules of baseball, of course, defy time, and “Eephus” embraces shagginess as a virtue, almost to a fault.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025
They might write experimental essays or memoirs; champion shagginess and shapelessness; pronounce, as Lockwood did in a recent interview, that the internet has anointed “the fragmentary and the autofictional … the modes of the times.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2021
While the Sanders and Trump campaigns shared a certain shagginess, a Warren event is a clockwork operation.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 10, 2019
To understand the mighty train of consequences set in motion by this mere shagginess of coat, let us remember that, like a human babe, every flowering plant has two parents.
From Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer by George Iles
