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as in tattered
wearing torn or worn-out clothes
raggedy urchins playing in the village streets
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as in ragged
worn or torn into or as if into rags
wears raggedy old T-shirts and jeans around the house
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Recent Examples of raggedy
Women were very fashionable in Cairo and never dared go out in raggedy clothes.
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Letters To The Editor,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
Watch when your raggedy TV works, anyway.
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Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
6 Jan. 2026
The other, a raggedy, bearded civilian from his country’s military reserve, is less enthused, and often strips off his service greens and his Ottoman-style fez to smoke cigarettes and lounge in the sun.
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Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
29 Dec. 2025
And yet, through the brown teeth and the raggedy clothing and the indifference of the opposite sex, Tupac found someone within the long gray hallways whose presence would prove life-changing.
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Jeff Pearlman,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for raggedy
Letters To The Editor,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
Watch when your raggedy TV works, anyway.
—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
6 Jan. 2026
The other, a raggedy, bearded civilian from his country’s military reserve, is less enthused, and often strips off his service greens and his Ottoman-style fez to smoke cigarettes and lounge in the sun.
—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
29 Dec. 2025
And yet, through the brown teeth and the raggedy clothing and the indifference of the opposite sex, Tupac found someone within the long gray hallways whose presence would prove life-changing.
—
Jeff Pearlman,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for raggedy
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One-touch passing, feinting and ripping hard shots into a tattered net, each is super-charged by vivid daydreams of glory on the international stage.
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The look was created from tattered bootleg championship shirts in blue, white and orange, which were sourced from vendors in NYC this week.
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His hushed, ragged whisper feels suitably weathered, fitting a collection of songs that never are in a hurry.
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Slugs and snails are some of the peskiest garden visitors that can riddle plant leaves with ragged holes or chew tender crops like lettuce down to nubs overnight.
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“Raggedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raggedy. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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