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 editorial team did an amazing job of cobbling together a take that includes that kind of shagginess, where he sort of interrupts himself, and sounds really specific, but also has clarity.

From Slate • Jun. 28, 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

But the shagginess pays off once Josh receives a mysterious letter from a woman in Florida who may or may not be a relative.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 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