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

They might write experimental essays or memoirs; champion shagginess and shapelessness; pronounce, as Lockwood did in a recent interview, that the internet has anointed “the fragmentary and the autofictional … the modes of the times.”

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2021

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

His handsome bearded face, with its lustrous, laughing eyes, peeped out curiously human amid the circumambient shagginess.

From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Ball, Alec