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Raggedness

noun

A texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven. Synonym: roughness.

Shabbiness by virtue of being in rags.

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"Raggedness" Quotes from Famous Books

... then—and now the line was but a stone-throw away—two fair lengths separated the contestants. And amid the deafening, frenzied shrieks of their schoolmates, their crimson-clad backs rising and falling like clock-work, all signs of raggedness gone, the eight heroes swept over the line winners by two and a half lengths from the St. Eustace crew, and disappeared under the bridge to emerge on the other side with ...

— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour

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