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
The energy in the virtual room picked up when Fallon joined around noon; he was wearing a long-sleeve T-shirt and his once orderly coif was drifting noticeably into shagginess.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2020
While the Sanders and Trump campaigns shared a certain shagginess, a Warren event is a clockwork operation.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 10, 2019
He saw the shagginess of a buffalo coat, the gleam of a white face.
From Molly McDonald A Tale of the Old Frontier by Ernest L. Blumenschein
