Definition of Ragged

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Ragged

of Rag

Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.

Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks.

Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant.

Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.

Rough; shaggy; rugged.

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Ragged Quotations

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
Aaliyah

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
Herman Melville

Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.
Krist Novoselic

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
Mary Harris Jones

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
Peggy Noonan

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.
Roger Andrew Taylor

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
William R. Alger

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.
Shana Alexander

Ragged Translations

ragged in German is zerlumpt, zerlumpte, zottig
ragged in Hungarian is kopott, rongyos, bozontos, szakadozott
ragged in Italian is cencioso
ragged in Spanish is harapiento
ragged in Swedish is trasig

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