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
The energy in the virtual room picked up when Fallon joined around noon; he was wearing a long-sleeve T-shirt and his once orderly coif was drifting noticeably into shagginess.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2020
While the Sanders and Trump campaigns shared a certain shagginess, a Warren event is a clockwork operation.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 10, 2019
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
