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Meanings of raggedness in English

Portuguese
rugosidade

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

rugosidade
Usage of raggedness in English
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That shocked Leicester and for a while they lapsed into uncharacteristic raggedness.
The Guardian
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But the raggedness of their voices was a music of its own.
Anathem
3
But the raggedness of some elements actually makes them interesting places to visit.
The disappearing spoon: and other true tales of madness, love, a...
4
The other signs may be set down as loss-dirtand raggedness and disorder.
A Cathedral Singer
5
I soon, however, saw too much; for all was raggedness, dirt, and disorder.
Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North
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Utterly dominant for the first half, Liverpool slipped into frustrated raggedness in the second.
The Guardian
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I had forgotten the raggedness of my clothes, now hideously emphasised by my bath.
Dead Man's Rock
8
Every degree of wretchedness and raggedness was represented by these sufferers of indescribable wrongs.
Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz: Fighting with the U.S. Navy in Mexico
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It will reveal the raggedness that survived the night and pushed through to now.
Climbing Magazine
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Presently a little barefooted colored boy came along, whose raggedness was conspicuously not un-Bermudian.
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
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Presently a little barefooted colored boy came along, whose raggedness was conspicuously not Bermudian.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
12
It was a little Bible, worn and frayed at the edges, pathetic in its raggedness.
God's Country—And the Woman
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One explanation for all this raggedness is that the Trump team is simply burned out.
NY Magazine
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The raggedness of her voice betrayed a strong emotion.
Mary Wollaston
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Men of science they call beggars, and the indigent they reproach for their wretched raggedness.
The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat,...
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Klopp attributed Liverpool's raggedness towards the end to inexperience.
The Guardian
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Portuguese
rugosidade
Raggedness through the time