shagginess

Example Sentences

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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

Seeing the work of her architect Pierpaolo Martiradonna and his team, what struck Leigh was the rich fullness: the shagginess of the thatch, the forest effect of the wood poles.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2022

While the Sanders and Trump campaigns shared a certain shagginess, a Warren event is a clockwork operation.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 10, 2019

Many stop-motion creators have adopted a slick style that mirrors the seamless feel of computerized animation, but Mr. Anderson insisted on shagginess for the talking woodland creatures in his adaptation of Roald Dahl’s book.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2018

He was a lightly-built, fragile man, with bushy curly hair, and a general shagginess of beard and eyebrow not unsuggestive of a Skye terrier.

From Mathilde Blind by Eliot, George