Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Roughly; so as to he shagged: as, shaggily pilose.
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- adverb In a
shaggy way.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a shaggy manner
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Examples
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As much as the wryly funny, shaggily bearded Seubert will never be a "typical" anything, he is a case study in how an NFL player's life is affected now, at least until the April 6 hearing in federal court on the players' request to lift the lockout.
Lockout Not a Big Obstacle for Giants' Seubert Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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When his low-budget, trash-talking "Clerks" came out in 1994, it seemed shaggily revolutionary.
The Laugh Factory 2008
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His face, unwashed since yesterday, looked pallid and clammy; his hair was tossed shaggily about his forehead, and his closed eyes had the sunken look which follows upon watching and sorrow.
Adam Bede 2004
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Well! Here is my promontory, and there is the sea — IT rolleth hither unto me, shaggily and fawningly, the old, faithful, hundred – headed dog – monster that I love! —
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All she could see of him was the back of his head where his dark, nearly black hair grew shaggily down his neck, and the sinewed contours of his sun-bronzed shoulders with his ridged spine running down the center.
Wildcatter’s Woman Janet Dailey 1990
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All she could see of him was the back of his head where his dark, nearly black hair grew shaggily down his neck, and the sinewed contours of his sun-bronzed shoulders with his ridged spine running down the center.
Wildcatter’s Woman Janet Dailey 1990
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Thick, slightly curling black hair tumbled across his forehead and grew shaggily down the back of his neck.
Time for Yesterday A. C. Crispin 1990
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All she could see of him was the back of his head where his dark, nearly black hair grew shaggily down his neck, and the sinewed contours of his sun-bronzed shoulders with his ridged spine running down the center.
Wildcatter’s Woman Janet Dailey 1990
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All she could see of him was the back of his head where his dark, nearly black hair grew shaggily down his neck, and the sinewed contours of his sun-bronzed shoulders with his ridged spine running down the center.
Wildcatter’s Woman Janet Dailey 1990
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The rest was piled up on top of his ears and hanging shaggily down over the collar of his suit coat, its light blond color similar to that of a competitive swimmer who spends five hours a day in a pool full of heavily chlorinated water.
Will Liddy, G. Gordon 1980
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