rag

It has gray, ragged fur, with burning red boils on its exposed skin.

It was deep, ragged, desperate howling, followed by a higher, sweeter, more piping sort of howl.

There were Simon and all three Incorrigibles, sitting next to a heap of rags.

The band’s relationships to music and their own voices have changed with age: ragged choirboys as they are now, but still tuneful and beautiful.

Kennedy couldn’t shake the nightmare image of two people in rags, huddled in radioactive rubble, wondering how they got there.