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shaggy

[shag-ee] / ˈʃæg i /


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Authorities suspect the primates, known for their shaggy red fur, were trafficked into India, sparking a criminal investigation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

“The Office,” with its belief in finding salvation and love through the surrogate family at your soul-sucking work job, was millennial, but so was the shaggy anti-ambition of “Workaholics.”

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

There’s little tension or drive, just shaggy scenes about paranoia, trust and hope.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Having just nabbed the Pulitzer Prize, Bess Wohl’s where-did-the-feminist-movement-go-wrong? play “Liberation” seems the likely winner, and a worthy one, despite its shaggy and digressive structure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

So she approached the only possible candidate—Henri, a medium-size shaggy dog.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

Although Fredo, who was born in Estonia, bears some resemblance to an African leopard, Mr Mee said he is a "little taller with longer legs and a shaggier face".

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2023

The reaction to the shaggier look appears to be mixed.

From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2023

It looked shaggier than usual, because its fronds aren’t being trimmed until the birds nesting in them move out.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022

Solo, however, is among the franchise’s best-loved heroes — warmer, shaggier and far more charismatic than the smarmy, unhip Luke Skywalker.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2015

His hair had grown out longer and shaggier, and his face was leaner, so he looked less like an imp and more like one of those willowy elves in the fairy tales.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

But the actors turned writer-directors have done their homework, setting up a “Friday the 13th” riff with a dash of “Wet Hot American Summer” that jokes its way through its shaggiest corners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

Bobby’s hair had grown longer every year of the 1960s; now, at forty-two, he had the shaggiest hair in the United States Senate.

From MSNBC ● Nov. 7, 2017

The angriest and shaggiest man between the horizon and the nearest dust cloud is a fellow named Eric, played by Guy Pearce.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2014

If the answer was Andrea Zuckerman, the shaggiest of the 90210 girls, that meant you had some work to do in the coming weeks.

From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2013

Looking out, she saw the cutest, shaggiest little pony standing on her front lawn!

From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene




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