Crossword clues for raggedly
raggedly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ragged \Rag"ged\ (r[a^]g"g[e^]d), a. [From Rag, n.]
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. [R.] ``A ragged noise of mirth.''
--Herbert.Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.
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Rough; shaggy; rugged.
What shepherd owns those ragged sheep?
--Dryden.Ragged lady (Bot.), the fennel flower ( Nigella Damascena).
Ragged robin (Bot.), a plant of the genus Lychnis ( Lychnis Flos-cuculi), cultivated for its handsome flowers, which have the petals cut into narrow lobes.
Ragged sailor (Bot.), prince's feather ( Polygonum orientale).
Ragged school, a free school for poor children, where they are taught and in part fed; -- a name given at first because they came in their common clothing. [Eng.] [1913 Webster] -- Rag"ged*ly, adv. -- Rag"ged*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a ragged manner, unevenly, especially not in unison
WordNet
adv. in a ragged uneven manner; "I took the cigarette he offered, drawing at it raggedly" [syn: unevenly]
in a ragged irregular manner; "a stone wall trails raggedly through the woods" [syn: stragglingly]
with a ragged and uneven appearance; "a long beard, raggedly cut" [syn: jaggedly]
Usage examples of "raggedly".
They backed raggedly south, along the town walls, toward the fields where the traders had camped, and the bridge that would let them across the river to a road leading safely north.
Maia raggedly inhaled, blinking disorientation from the searing return of sunshine.
A stocky figure appeared through the archway, loping raggedly on mismatched legs, torch in hand.
The blade had caught the surface of the skin and torn it back raggedly, but not deeply.
And the charm of the old manor around him, the garden with its grey stone walls and yew hedges--broad, broad yew hedges and a peacock pausing to glitter and scream in the busy silence of an English spring, when celandines open their yellow under the hedges, and violets are in the secret, and by the broad paths of the garden polyanthus and crocuses vary the velvet and flame, and bits of yellow wallflower shake raggedly, with a wonderful triumphance, out of the cracks of the wall.
The troops came scattershot up the slope, running raggedly from cover to cover.
Before leaving that morning, Manos had gouged out their eyes, raggedly emasculated them, and left them to bleed to death.
He led the two women back to his own garden, where the towsled bushes of flowers of all colours stood raggedly along the path down to the field.
She was a girl, he saw, about their own age, tall and straight but raggedly dressed, her mass of brown hair in great disorder where it had been teased by the brambles, and her hands bleeding.
Hetherington thought that the Southerners did not look very much different from Northerners, except that they were generally thinner and a good deal more raggedly uniformed, but he did not want to contradict the eminent preacher, and so he agreed that the captured rebels did indeed display low foreheads and feral teeth.
Stokes had climbed back up the northern side of the ravine so that he could see across the farther wall, and he now watched as the two small groups of redcoats advanced raggedly over the hillside.
She wore leather sandals, bound by straps that wound up her calves, and a supple skirt sewn of pale leather that had been sliced off raggedly at knee length.
He was in a wider, higher passage, a grander hall, and saw that the alcoves here were filled not by raggedly shrouded skeletons, but by standing sarcophagi, exquisitely detailed and gilded in precious metals and gemstones.
He heard the backseater breathing raggedly over the ICS, and said, "What's the matter, man?
The music went swirling out raggedly across the town square, and villagers and visitors alike took part in a wild dance, mourning and celebration both confabulated into one outpouring of emotion.