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- the Rocky Mountains cut an angular, ragged profile against the sky, in contrast to the rounded silhouette of the rolling, green Adirondack Mountains
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- finally convinced her to throw away her favorite pair of jeans, ragged from years of yard work
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- broken-down,
- decrepit,
- dilapidated,
- dog-eared,
- grungy,
- mangy,
- moth-eaten,
- run-down,
- scuzzy
- [slang],
- tacky
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- brand-new,
- new,
- spick-and-span
- (or spic-and-span),
- unused
- she cut herself on the ragged edge of the tin can's lid
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- ragged and hungry refugees emerging from the jungle where they had been in hiding for weeks
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- down-at-the-heels
- (or down-at-heel also down-at-the-heel or down-at-heels)
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of ragged (Entry 2 of 2)
- several readers called in to rag the editor for his paper's repeated grammatical lapses
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- admonished,
- chid
- (or chided),
- remonstrated (with),
- reproved
- abused,
- assailed,
- attacked,
- bad-mouthed,
- blamed,
- blasted,
- censured,
- condemned,
- criticized,
- crucified,
- denounced,
- dissed
- [slang],
- excoriated,
- faulted,
- harangued,
- knocked,
- laced (into),
- lashed,
- panned,
- reprehended,
- reviled,
- scourged,
- slammed,
- vituperated
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“Ragged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ragged. Accessed 26 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of ragged was in the 14th century
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