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shaggy

adjective as in hairy, unkempt

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This seemed to calm him, and he looked up at Penelope, a shaggy black dog with bloodshot eyes.

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The boy stood still, shaggy hair flying everywhere, and stared up at the towering, twisting tornado.

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Her spring trip goes heavy on wild greens, with a good dose of truffle hunting, while the fall is a bonanza of shaggy parasol mushrooms and mountain villages.

It went quite rightly to Panda, the shaggy black-and-white pet of a fractured Icelandic family in “The Love That Remains,” directed by Hlynur Pálmason.

One early reviewer has compared “Shadow Ticket’s” shaggy charm to cold pizza, and readers will know what he means.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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