shagginess
Example Sentences
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They’re dead-set on excising any shagginess that doesn’t fit their hidebound worldview, attacking textbooks and museums that dare to push beyond a straightforward explanation.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
The rules of baseball, of course, defy time, and “Eephus” embraces shagginess as a virtue, almost to a fault.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025
Ms. Sudo explains how much laborious salt-shrinking and clamp-dyeing goes into the shagginess and sci-fi metallic sheens.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
The editorial team did an amazing job of cobbling together a take that includes that kind of shagginess, where he sort of interrupts himself, and sounds really specific, but also has clarity.
From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2021
In the cold colourlessness they were delicate and feeble as the faces of children, rosy and soft under the splattering of mud and the shagginess of unshaven beards.
From One Man's Initiation—1917 by John Dos Passos
