draggle

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for draggle
Verb
  • Their habitats were ransacked, their migration routes disarranged, truncated, cut off.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
Verb
  • The internet already messed her up pretty good.
    Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The internet already messed her up pretty good.
    Charles Trepany, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Tune in next week to see how this all gets jumbled up again.
    Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Minimize the presence of bulky and jumbled up cords, with sleek, wireless charging trays, pads, and stands.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The film’s most trenchant scenes involve Gere in states of repose or regret or nostalgia, especially when psychically disarrayed in a chair with a camera facing toward him, wondering what, for example, desire smells like.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds.
    Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
Verb
  • So, Horn’s opportunity for activation seems muddled at best — justified or not.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Every school was feeling its way around to some degree when the NCAA rule changes arrived in the summer of 2021, and myriad state laws muddled the picture even further.
    Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hair disheveled, a dazed and bewildered look in his eyes, the coach trudged into his own dressing room to regroup and get a rundown of a growing list of injuries.
    Mike Jones, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • That was thrilling for us, because that disheveled scraggly look totally became who Vince was.
    Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Children have a penchant for unconventional thinking that, at first glance, can look disordered.
    Celeste Kidd, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Those included headaches, insomnia, light and noise sensitivity, brain fog, anxiety, confusion, joint pain, disordered eating, nausea and weight loss and gain.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
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“Draggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/draggle. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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