shaggy
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And one might even trace today’s would-be Rhaena Targaryens — and Daenerys emulators, we know you’re out there — to that shaggy flying dog.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
They can grow to the size of a medium dog and have shaggy black hair, making them look like large dust mops.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
It’s loose and playful, which would seem to be a plus, but it’s too shaggy and imprecise to land, and sometimes seems as if it were made up on the spot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Giant anteaters have black and white diagonal stripes, dense shaggy hair and super-sized snouts.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
The Wallace who came out of the creek, drenched in too-short jeans, a too-tight shirt, with shaggy unkempt hair and fingernails that were about two feet long, was twenty-three years old.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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Although Fredo, who was born in Estonia, bears some resemblance to an African leopard, Mr Mee said he is a "little taller with longer legs and a shaggier face".
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2023
It’s bigger, shaggier and a bit messier than its predecessor, and while it bears other fun similarities to “Scream 2,” mentioning more ventures into spoiler territory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
During the pandemic, he has traded his Washington-based policy wonk look with a trimmed beard and buzzed hair for a shaggier and scruffier look to fit a Colorado mountain man.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2021
The final incarnation of Chewie was simultaneously shaggier and sleeker than seen here, with a more plume- and mane-like headpiece.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2018
A little shaggier, a little older, still energetically mad, he looked at the woman hurrying along the road with the sunset in her face.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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But the actors turned writer-directors have done their homework, setting up a “Friday the 13th” riff with a dash of “Wet Hot American Summer” that jokes its way through its shaggiest corners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
Bobby’s hair had grown longer every year of the 1960s; now, at forty-two, he had the shaggiest hair in the United States Senate.
From MSNBC ● Nov. 7, 2017
The angriest and shaggiest man between the horizon and the nearest dust cloud is a fellow named Eric, played by Guy Pearce.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2014
If the answer was Andrea Zuckerman, the shaggiest of the 90210 girls, that meant you had some work to do in the coming weeks.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2013
Looking out, she saw the cutest, shaggiest little pony standing on her front lawn!
From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene
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