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

Ms. Sudo explains how much laborious salt-shrinking and clamp-dyeing goes into the shagginess and sci-fi metallic sheens.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 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

Like a drift of snow the huge wolf-hound whirled his white shagginess into the vestibule.

From Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell