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as in hairy
covered with or as if with hair
a big, shaggy dog kept trying to lick my face
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Recent Examples of shaggy
Pulse or fluff mixture until thoroughly moistened and shaggy or clumpy, but not yet formed into a ball.
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Judy Bart Kancigor, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
Inside, piles of white fiber extracted from the plants’ leaves awaited combing, destined for everything from handbags to the shaggy chandeliers that have made Damman a rising design star.
—Ingrid Abramovitch, Architectural Digest, 6 May 2026
Mix with a fork, adding more ice water by the tablespoonful as needed, just until a shaggy dough comes together.
—Andy Baraghani, Bon Appetit Magazine, 6 May 2026
After a run of delightfully strange and charmingly shaggy studio albums (beginning with 1996’s Fuzzy Logic), the Welsh quintet seemed to call it a day.
—David Harris, SPIN, 4 May 2026
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Judy Bart Kancigor, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
Inside, piles of white fiber extracted from the plants’ leaves awaited combing, destined for everything from handbags to the shaggy chandeliers that have made Damman a rising design star.
—Ingrid Abramovitch, Architectural Digest, 6 May 2026
Mix with a fork, adding more ice water by the tablespoonful as needed, just until a shaggy dough comes together.
—Andy Baraghani, Bon Appetit Magazine, 6 May 2026
After a run of delightfully strange and charmingly shaggy studio albums (beginning with 1996’s Fuzzy Logic), the Welsh quintet seemed to call it a day.
—David Harris, SPIN, 4 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shaggy
Adjective
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And the score by Michael Abels (who collaborated with Jordan Peele on Get Out and Nope) is an all-timer, unsettling and steeped in dread to start and then frenetically nerve-shredding as things get hairier.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
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Where are hairy ghost pipefish found?—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
Adjective
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Meanwhile, Dara looks fly as hell in a bikini, a blue fuzzy jacket, and ski goggles on her head.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
13 May 2026
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The voice in the recording is tense, fuzzy and hard to make out amid a riot of background chatter.—
Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
13 May 2026
Adjective
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The texture is silky, balancing tropical-fruit richness with crisp vegetal notes.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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Around the movie’s 180-minute mark, a silky white cat named Leo appears on the scene, and this sudden burst of unpredictable energy might feel like a blessing.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
15 May 2026
Adjective
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In a region of rough roads, Chispa is among the roughest.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
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That is often billed as a finishing school for footballing talent, but graduates inevitably remain rough around the edges.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
13 May 2026
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“Shaggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shaggy. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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