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  • adjective superlative form of ragged: most ragged.

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Examples

  • The raggedest nightcap, awry on the wretchedest head, had this crooked significance in it: "I know how hard it has grown for me, the wearer of this, to support life in myself; but do you know how easy it has grown for me, the wearer of this, to destroy life in you?"

    The WritingYA Weblog: TBR3: Insufferable Happiness, Insufferable Pain tanita davis 2008

  • The raggedest nightcap, awry on the wretchedest head, had this crooked significance in it: "I know how hard it has grown for me, the wearer of this, to support life in myself; but do you know how easy it has grown for me, the wearer of this, to destroy life in you?"

    Archive 2008-09-01 a. fortis 2008

  • Physicians, not in the College of Surgeons, can there possibly be found more remarkable instances of uncomplaining poverty, of cheerful, constant self-denial, of the generous remembrance of the claims of kindred and professional brotherhood, than will certainly be found in the dingiest and dirtiest concert room, in the least lucid theatre — even in the raggedest tent circus that was ever stained by weather.

    Speeches: Literary and Social 2007

  • She noted that the few people whom they passed wore their raggedest coats for the evil day.

    Main Street 2004

  • The raggedest beggar in the street might prophesy as much.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The raggedest beggar in the street might prophesy as much.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • She silently cursed the efficient and indefatigable Mrs. Merriwether, the wounded and the whole Southern Confederacy, as Prissy buttoned her in her oldest and raggedest calico frock which she used for hospital work.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • She silently cursed the efficient and indefatigable Mrs. Merriwether, the wounded and the whole Southern Confederacy, as Prissy buttoned her in her oldest and raggedest calico frock which she used for hospital work.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • She silently cursed the efficient and indefatigable Mrs. Merriwether, the wounded and the whole Southern Confederacy, as Prissy buttoned her in her oldest and raggedest calico frock which she used for hospital work.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • She silently cursed the efficient and indefatigable Mrs. Merriwether, the wounded and the whole Southern Confederacy, as Prissy buttoned her in her oldest and raggedest calico frock which she used for hospital work.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

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