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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
Straw peeked from the brown sleeves of his raggedy shirt.
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Shari Rudavsky, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Three little raggedy boys sit in a row pressed against each other on a mound of rubble in front of a worn plastered brick wall in 1915 in Esztergom, Hungary, Kertész’s homeland.
—Donna Seaman
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
On multiple occasions, in fact, Hailey would step out in an elegant mini and pumps, and her husband would be wearing raggedy jeans and a bulky hoodie.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2025
What will Mayor Brandon Johnson’s playbook be against ‘raggedy’ Trump White House?
—Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
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Shari Rudavsky, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Three little raggedy boys sit in a row pressed against each other on a mound of rubble in front of a worn plastered brick wall in 1915 in Esztergom, Hungary, Kertész’s homeland.
—Donna Seaman
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
On multiple occasions, in fact, Hailey would step out in an elegant mini and pumps, and her husband would be wearing raggedy jeans and a bulky hoodie.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2025
What will Mayor Brandon Johnson’s playbook be against ‘raggedy’ Trump White House?
—Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raggedy
Adjective
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Nearly every panel of the shoe is tattered and torn, including a heel seam that’s coming undone and reveals the inner cork components of the shoe.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
30 Oct. 2025
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By the end of the summer my catalogs were tattered and worn.—
Neil Sperry,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 Oct. 2025
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My breath is nervous and ragged but my will determined.—
Vanita Salisbury,
AFAR Media,
6 Nov. 2025
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The result is a ragged primal scream of a film — not a cry for help, but rather, a bellow of maternal rage.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Raggedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raggedy. Accessed 25 Nov. 2025.
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