shagginess

Example Sentences

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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

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

They might write experimental essays or memoirs; champion shagginess and shapelessness; pronounce, as Lockwood did in a recent interview, that the internet has anointed “the fragmentary and the autofictional … the modes of the times.”

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2021

While the Sanders and Trump campaigns shared a certain shagginess, a Warren event is a clockwork operation.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 10, 2019

To understand the mighty train of consequences set in motion by this mere shagginess of coat, let us remember that, like a human babe, every flowering plant has two parents.

From Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer by Iles, George