How to Use ragamuffin in a Sentence
ragamuffin
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Right or wrong, San Diego teams are looked at like the unkempt, ragamuffin.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2022-12-08
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And Derek Klena as cavalier hunk and all-around ragamuffin Dmitry.
—Diana Bruk, Seventeen, 2016-08-30
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Baker’s new exploitation mode includes lurid, nursery-school pastels and ragamuffin kids who curse, vandalize, and set fires.
—Armond White, National Review, 2017-10-06
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For the occasion, Wayne ditched his usual ragamuffin chic attire in favor of an understated gray turtleneck and dark, baggy sweater with red trim.
—Keith Spera, NOLA.com, 2021-01-21
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The baby was plump, and came to be called Tumpy (for Humpty Dumpty), a moniker that persisted well after poverty had thinned her into a ragamuffin.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 2022-08-08
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At least as the wryly morose Shakespeare, a ragamuffin-ish Nolte makes this journey occasionally captivating and lively — if not, ultimately, one worth seeing through to the end.
—Nick Schager, Variety, 2021-12-21
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