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2 | 32% | 9 | Scraggly-haired headwear | |
3 | 30% | 10 | Scraggly and messy in appearance | |
Shaggy Or Scraggly Crossword Clue
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We think the answer is "RAGGED" which means:
- adjective satellite
- • Being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn
- • Worn out from stress or strain
- • Having an irregular outline adjective
- • In tatters, having the texture broken.
- • Having rough edges; jagged or uneven
- • Harsh-sounding; having an unpleasant noise
- • Wearing tattered clothes.
- • Rough; shaggy; rugged.
- • Faulty; lacking in skill, reliability, or organization.
- • Performed in a syncopated manner, especially in ragtime.
- • Of a data structure: having uneven levels. verb
- • To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
- • To become tattered.
- • To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
- • To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
- • To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
- • To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
- • To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
- • To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
- • To dance to ragtime music.
- • To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
An example sentence would be:
- • "He wore a ragged old t-shirt."
- • "The abandoned house had ragged curtains hanging in the windows."
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New York Times02 Jul 1991 | Down 42 | |
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