as in jagged
having an uneven edge or outline
goats scrambled nimbly up the craggy side of the mountain
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Recent Examples of craggy
Seagulls, which mate for life and return to the same nesting spots each year, have their nests all along the craggy cliffs and on almost every rooftop in what the parents deem safe spots from predators.
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Monica Deeks, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
Peter Diamandis is five feet four and has pipestem legs, but his torso widens into broad shoulders, powerful biceps, and a craggy, Homeric head.
—Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
The craggy nobs sit in a soft tortilla with creamy hunks of housemade tofu feta and bits of lettuce and tomato.
—Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Yet the far side of the moon, which can only be seen by orbiting spacecraft, has barely any maria and is covered by craggy, cratered and ancient highlands.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 July 2025
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Monica Deeks, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
Peter Diamandis is five feet four and has pipestem legs, but his torso widens into broad shoulders, powerful biceps, and a craggy, Homeric head.
—Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
The craggy nobs sit in a soft tortilla with creamy hunks of housemade tofu feta and bits of lettuce and tomato.
—Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Yet the far side of the moon, which can only be seen by orbiting spacecraft, has barely any maria and is covered by craggy, cratered and ancient highlands.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for craggy
jagged
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Most of the surface is made up of a fine dust with jagged edges because it hasn’t been weathered by wind or water.—
Jeremy Bogaisky,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Against all of this allegedly heady stuff, the score—by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross—intentionally jars us from encroaching drowsiness with chortling woodwinds and shardlike piano chords that are the aural equivalent of jagged Plexiglass off-cuts.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Craggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/craggy. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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