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

The energy in the virtual room picked up when Fallon joined around noon; he was wearing a long-sleeve T-shirt and his once orderly coif was drifting noticeably into shagginess.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2020

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

Mallicollo surprised us again with the beauty and shagginess of its forests, from whence vast numbers of smokes ascended, sufficient to prove, that a great part of them was inhabited.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Kerr, Robert