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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
At the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a raggedy fleet of 15 research vessels are, on average, over 30 years old.
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Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Over the past few years, the ten raggedy courts in Leif Ericson Park, adjacent to Brooklyn’s Eighth Avenue Chinatown, have gone from neglected to absolutely buzzing with energy.
—David Shaftel, Curbed, 26 Aug. 2025
Straw peeked from the brown sleeves of his raggedy shirt.
—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
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Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Over the past few years, the ten raggedy courts in Leif Ericson Park, adjacent to Brooklyn’s Eighth Avenue Chinatown, have gone from neglected to absolutely buzzing with energy.
—David Shaftel, Curbed, 26 Aug. 2025
Straw peeked from the brown sleeves of his raggedy shirt.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raggedy
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Enter Tyrannio, a Greek specialist in literature and libraries, owner of some 30,000 scrolls and famed expert on Aristotle — in fact, the same man responsible for restoring the philosopher’s tattered library after it was hauled to Rome.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Feb. 2026
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Concerns about the project and the tattered state of the street have been raised at local community planning meetings, with some wondering whether the work had stalled for some reason.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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Also consider that monstera is sometimes called swiss cheese plant, with leaves that develop ragged holes over time.—
Lee Wallender,
The Spruce,
4 Feb. 2026
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At 836,000 square miles, Greenland is nearly 80 percent ice, a frozen leaf dangling in the far North Atlantic with dramatic, ragged edges, impossibly sheer cliffs that dwarf even El Capitan, and a massive ice sheet as thick as 11,000 feet.—
Tim Neville,
Outside,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Raggedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raggedy. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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