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raggedy

[rag-i-dee] / ˈræg ɪ di /
ADJECTIVE
tattered
Synonyms
WEAK
badly dressed badly worn battered broken dilapidated frayed frazzled full of holes in rags in shreds in tatters moth-eaten poorly made ragged ripped rugged scraggy seedy shabby shaggy shoddy tatterdemalion threadbare torn torn to pieces unkempt

Example Sentences

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But in a deliberately raggedy film, we find a raggedy man.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

I had a golf tee time booked for Thursday afternoon at Wilson Golf Course, a beloved if sometimes raggedy course that the city runs in Griffith Park, near me.

From Slate • Jan. 9, 2025

“A lot of things have to do with them raggedy shoes that Melo be wearing,” LaVar Ball told CBS Sports.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2024

“They’re just dropping off people anywhere. Do you understand how raggedy and how evil that is?”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2023

She also turned Cinderella's raggedy dress into a beautiful ball gown, a pumpkin into a coach, and mice into coach drivers.

From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene

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