raggedy


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Synonyms for raggedy

torn into or marked by shreds or tatters

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Susie Gerber with Two Raggedy Sisters described the event as a great day.
Much as Raggedy Ann's name conjoined African American ragtime music with [James Whitcomb] Riley's Midwestern poetry, her visual attributes ...
Tye Sheridan and newcomer Jacob Lofland are kid pals who discover raggedy man Mud (McConaughey) living feral on a remote Mississippi island.
Stepping out in sagging camouflage pants, a ratty green canvas jacket, mismatched scarf, and ill-fitting cape, Galliano's look is more Raggedy Andy than Oscar de la Rentaand it's downright offensive to the homeless community.
Suddenly, the raggedy buskers look like cool customers.
She loved to cook and was a accomplished seamstress and knitter making personal gifts such as Christmas stockings, hats, mittens and Raggedy Ann dolls.
Long straggly, jet-black hair, heavy make-up and raggedy black clothing are very much a part of what make him who he is and he's not showing any signs that he's prepared to give them up, despite the fact that he's in his 50's.
Raggedy Ann & Johnny Gruelle's century old book series about two
Drood and his sidekick the raggedy man, whose purpose is to restore a tract of London's night sky that has existed as a starless vacuum for many years.
The illustrations are quite amusing, a bit rough and raggedy as appropriate to the characters and tough street setting, and positive messages of supportive family abound.
I stared & dreams pulsed through the eyeball, that raggedy, amped-up spore.
Why are the men crawling and wearing raggedy clothes?
Schoolboys no longer have to borrow raggedy copies of Health and Beauty.
Despite his Etonian and Oxford pedigree--even his detractors concede his intellectual brilliance--the former Spectator editor and Conservative MP for Henley with a Raggedy Andy hairstyle, is hardly the typical Tory politician.
She can't help but notice a difference between herself, comfortably skipping through puddles with her umbrella and rubber boots, and the Paper Man who stands outside selling papers for a dollar in a "raggedy coat" with hair that "sticks up higgledy-piggledy all over his head," and with so little protection that "rain runs off his bumpy nose and down into his beard." The difference scares her.Lily's fear leads her to avoid the Paper Man at all costs, even ducking down in her seat when the bus she is riding passes him.