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Definition of Ragged

Ragged

  1. of Rag
  2. Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.
  3. Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks.
  4. Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant.
  5. Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.
  6. Rough; shaggy; rugged.

Ragged Quotations

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

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

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

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.
Elizabeth Warren

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
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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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