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"raggedy" Definitions
  1. old and torn; wearing old and torn clothes
  2. having edges or ends that are not straight or even

147 Sentences With "raggedy"

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And it can take a handful of raggedy-ass Indians to do the same, and I intend to be one of those raggedy-ass Indians.
They thought bluesmen needed to be raggedy, old, and drink.
You wrote "Buckingham" and "Raggedy Ann" on the latest album.
A little blue car pulled up — a raggedy blue car.
A raggedy looking dog bares his teeth and lurches towards me.
" Second: "Please don't go insane / Over these raggedy hoes, my brother.
"I go around at home like I'm just raggedy," she says.
"I go around at home like I'm just raggedy," she said.
What's with those raggedy circles drawn on the wall of each floor?
Your stomach — and those raggedy-ass carrots you're serving — deserve so much more.
At the time I had a beard, and I was wearing raggedy clothes.
It still has its original, raggedy interior, but don't let that fool you.
He was treating the little boy like a Raggedy Ann doll in his grip.
For now, I just need the basics to wear under my raggedy t-shirts.
The most explosive airs usually happen on wild, raggedy waves, with lots of wind.
THEN I had a Raggedy Ann kind of doll and then a Cabbage Patch.
That she's based on a real-life haunted Raggedy Ann doll adds to the intrigue.
"We're in the raggedy edge of the perception of ripeness in cabernet," Mr. Patterson said.
Once, they'd struggled against a raggedy batch of bandits in some cramped and bloody canyon.
But he was going back and forth too much (mechanically), and shot raggedy as hell.
Would you hazard a guess as to what Raggedy Ann claims I did to her?
I have been stacking my various W2s in a raggedy pile on my kitchen table.
I'm not sure how she could not see those raggedy toes, but let's just assume here.
The City Opera orchestra sounded a bit raggedy and out of its element in the Rameau.
"The Raggedy Dances" suggests that Mozart was a proto-ragtime composer, at least in this score.
The theater is dark when the raggedy old sailor stomps in, dragging a battered wooden trunk.
"The Raggedy Dances," a frisky, soufflé-light piece from 1972, has not been performed since then.
Also on the program will be the 1972 quintet "The Raggedy Dances," mainly to Scott Joplin rags.
At that time, anyone involved with rock was considered a hooligan — long hair, raggedy clothes, smoking cigarettes.
This means a lot of dry shampoo, topknots, and abashed explanations to stylists about my raggedy ends.
This old black work was how we ate, fixed raggedy cars, paid doctor bills, and filled friends' commissaries.
Convinced by the moving story, Donna gave the spirit permission to continue residing in the Raggedy Ann doll.
And then she showed up to the inauguration dressed like Raggedy Ann cosplaying as Light-Horse Harry Lee.
It doesn't really matter that what Barras had to offer the devil was a raggedy little play indeed.
If so, think about avoiding suede which will, more likely than not, end up looking pretty raggedy come December.
"The Raggedy Dances," though beloved, became a rarity; most audience members will be seeing it for the first time.
After 78 years in the general vicinity of earth, Stampfel's intense cartoon keen is finally getting raggedy around the edges.
Lawns were overgrown and raggedy, flower beds were clogged with dead leaves, and trash was strewn over the paving stones.
Yates's Raggedy Family is impossible to relate to on a personal level, yet also impossible to completely distance oneself from.
She's been called "tired and raggedy looking" and a "waste of space and oxygen," while also being accused of doing drugs.
In "The Raggedy Dances," from 1972, she mashes up Scott Joplin and Mozart with her own unique blend of rigorous frolicking.
The short video opens with a raggedy-looking grey bodega cat chilling in the window of a standard New York City deli.
Running my fingers through my hair, I noticed my ends felt like straw and looked downright raggedy (I desperately needed a trim).
Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian's 11-month-old daughter Dream was definitely in the Halloween spirit this week, dressed as Raggedy Ann.
When Bibby catches him on the street skipping school, the teen doesn't hesitate to take a dig at the rapper's raggedy head.
Models had Raggedy Ann eyelashes, or glittery, beetle-green shadowed lids, or Elton John-style glasses with rims shaped like butterfly wings.
I spot the occasional raggedy sheep and a few goats, but most of the animals that roam the island are Holstein cows.
In "Mary Poppins Returns," the name of the crazy-haired, raggedy-dressed, comically unruly character (played by Meryl Streep) is also Topsy.
Since its founding in 1971 this had been a raggedy band, making its point with risky stunts that were denounced more than praised.
But they instead chopped down a raggedy, 45-foot Norway spruce from a local ball field and erected it in a downtown square.
The sidekick, who was sitting on a desert island, raggedy, starving, alone, fading, suddenly drops out of the sky and onto your character.
The games are raw and raggedy, the players are always at least halfway out of their bodies, and that is always the case.
TWYLA THARP DANCE The formidable choreographer opens the Joyce's fall season with two vintage treasures: "The Raggedy Dances" (1972) and "The Fugue" (1970).
I searched high and low for one at the mall but they were either raggedy or too boxy or too long or too short.
The light of the partial moon was quite sufficient to pick out the silhouettes of spiky bayonet and spindly manzanita and raggedy creosote bushes.
You're gonna have a bunch of crunchy, raggedy-ass drag queens who are supporting you, but outside of the community, you will get nothing.
Their raggedy harmonies on songs like "Where Do You Run To" and "Everything Goes Wrong" evoked a crude sketch of a 60s girl group.
I took the idea, and a raggedy pair of Converse tennis shoes, to an Italian shoemaker, Bobby DiRinaldo, who lived in my little town.
If I had one quibble with this movie, it's the raggedy, tiresome "Chosen One" narrative that propels — literally, propels — our heroine across the ocean.
" On another occasion, @africamustwake tweeted: "YOU POLICE BEEN KILLING BLACKS SINCE YA RAGGEDY MOMMAS GAVE BIRTH TO U. HAPPY MLK DAY TO U HYPOCRITES.
Often in "The Raggedy Dances" she leaves passages of dancy music unused, but elsewhere her troupe moves through the silent breaks between musical items.
In a smaller tableau, swan-necked tulips might be arrayed like attack dogs guarding a raggedy bunch of wildflowers, the elegant protecting the prosaic.
Finally, I could get rid of my raggedy old college sweats and feel like a real adult wearing a super-cute matching set of pajamas.
This wasn't just a bad habit or questionable lifestyle choice for raggedy assed nak muay in the UK. Ganja smoke permeated the Bangkok scene, too.
The local Blue Bikes bike-sharing system is a really useful way to explore — just factor in the raggedy condition of many New Orleans streets.
Grazda's pearly black-and-white finish preserves the raggedy, stuporous air of the time with great dignity and pays its occasional menace the proper respect.
MOBILE, Alabama, lies at the raggedy end of the American mainland, amid a boggy landscape of swamp and forest where five rivers empty into the sea.
But whoring out my bed—my own private sanctuary, complete with sweat-stained sheets and raggedy stuffed elephant named Elephant—on Recharge, the "Airbnb for naps"?
She photographed the tracery of dead leaves on autumnal trees, a flyaway newspaper tumbling down a dark street, a discarded Raggedy Ann doll on the ground.
But since plenty of blushes can deposit too much color, I think the fact that you don't get instant Raggedy Ann-cheeks is actually a plus.
" UFC fighter Urijah Faber, who was also at the event, described the protestor as "all dirty, dressed kind of raggedy, and bloodied up [after getting hit].
I still have a soft spot in my heart for raggedy band tees and bat mitzvah sweatpants riddled with holes, those will still do the trick.
A political inquiry could shed enormous light on both Trump's character as an individual and the raggedy state of white-collar crime control in the United States.
It suggests that we're not waiting for, or trying to avert, the apocalypse; the world has already ended, and we're just living on its broken, raggedy edge.
The hubris, the wantonness, the tragedy of living life on the raggedy edge of the one skill you might have, and the men who exploit you for it.
"I wanted it to be a raggedy submarine... to be fairly old and broken, because I saw, first hand, how advanced and safe modern subs were," Parker says.
While the tight fit and multicolored horizontal stripes have proved appealing, the garments are actually meant to be kind of raggedy, capturing the hardscrabble life in 1870s Maine.
In the series, the doll is a painted porcelain figure with a pale face and bright makeup, but in real life she's actually a simple vintage Raggedy Ann doll.
Yet as a Mekons fan I stuck at it, and to my surprise, these raggedy-ass plaints now add up to my favorite Mekons album since 2002's OOOH!.
Despite the vastness of the Burgtheater stage, the elaborate lighting and the apparently unlimited fog budget, the raggedy costumes and the slapdash scaffolding lend the proceedings a DIY feel.
But those raggedy charms are shown up by the high professional gloss of its music, which is delivered by a luxurious orchestra of 31, much larger than the original.
It was a complete upgrade from my usual experience, sitting in a raggedy gown while a doctor throws pharmaceutical terms around like they're in an episode of a medical drama.
Also over 60, Jimmy Jam was wearing a raggedy green jacket over his faded red jumpsuit, and a green hat to match, making him look like a clown without makeup.
"The eraser is a godsend," said Jon Burgerman, pointing an iPhone in the direction of a compact, raggedy-haired dog outside a Blue Bottle Coffee shop in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
Two minutes later, and armed with nothing more than a raggedy shirt and pants combo, and the bare minimum of advice, he's sent out into the vast expanse of the world.
They were sitting outside their school in a West Village park looking classically disengaged — with pierced noses, tattoos, raggedy clothes and hair that was chopped and shredded for maximum apocalyptic effect.
How could North Vietnam, which the president famously dismissed as a "raggedy-assed, little fourth-rate country," defeat a force equipped with the most abundant and advanced arsenal on the planet?
There were half a dozen musicians, looking like a raggedy drum circle and including a Palestinian man with an oud (who at one point would offer a Muslim prayer in Arabic).
"Little Town on the Prairie," published in 1941, included a description of a minstrel show with "five black-faced men in raggedy-taggedy uniforms" alongside a jolting illustration of the scene.
And after determining that the giant porcelain kitchen sink "was cool, but too raggedy to keep," Ms. Li said, they rescued a stainless-steel sink from the debris in the backyard.
"They said they were looking for dining furniture for the secretary's office because a new secretary was coming in and the current furniture was old and it was raggedy," Sebree said.
You can also expect to see a raggedy one-eyed pup whose heart will presumably grow by the end of the movie, a teenage crush, and at least a few sniffing jokes.
A sort of little raggedy monologue, as I marched my way toward the blur of occasional cars, on their journey up to San Francisco or down to L.A. in a straight line.
The busts rest on modern-looking palettes of tile in carved and painted medium-density fiberboard; the standing figures are covering themselves in raggedy yet luxuriant pieces of felted hair and fur.
The film is set behind the scenes at a Muppet Show-like theatrical company, and it nods to The Muppet Movie with its story about raggedy puppet entertainers dreaming of making it big.
The fanciful dresses found on figure in Praise Me and Ain't Nothing Raggedy About This are meant to evoke the ways in which the women saw themselves despite the contradictions of their situations.
When I first shaved my head on that fateful night, standing in a raggedy towel with my ex and a few friends in the bathroom of our college dorm, my hands shook uncontrollably.
During the trial, the child's mother, Petti, then 28, testified that her daughter "went limp, like a rag doll, just like a rag doll — she looked like Raggedy Ann" after the intravenous injection.
With it comes the agonizing process of staring at your old, raggedy (possibly no more than a year old) iPhone and wondering if you should lay out the dough and upgrade your Apple device.
The absence of obvious moralizing, the catch-as-catch-can prosody, the raggedy serendipity of his long-necked and balding birds and animals turn out to spring from someplace deep in his sly and adaptable personality.
But sometimes, so did groups such as the Confederate Veterans of America, which released a 1932 report decrying one textbook's portrayal of Jamestown as a raggedy settlement that didn't compare well with New England's early colonies.
Many cultures have even codified the distance between childhood and adulthood with versions of dolls that match their owners in sophistication — you graduate from the Raggedy Ann to the American Girl to the heirloom porcelain doll.
In the case of the playful, innocent "Raggedy Dances" — which features music by Scott Joplin and Mozart — six dancers shimmy and roll their way through Ms. Tharp's silken movement, creating a landscape of lightness and naïveté.
Kerr also went deeper into his bench than normal, using 10 of his 13 available players to counter fatigue and Golden State's turnover trouble to secure a 104-100 victory in a raggedy opener for both sides.
Weah, who grew up kicking a raggedy soccer ball on the dusty streets of the capital Monrovia's Clara Town slum and later played for top European clubs, successfully tapped into dissatisfaction with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's 12-year presidency.
Anyway, give the trailer a watch above to watch Affleck trounce through a post-apocalyptic wasteland in raggedy clothes and be real scared of strangers, and—if you're so inclined—catch it in theaters when it premieres August 9.
BURG MIGHEIZIL, Egypt — In the raggedy fishing village of Burg Migheizil on Egypt's north coast, where the mighty Nile pours silently into the sea, restless teenage boys are plotting their escape, lured by illusory dreams of money and glamour.
A troupe of raggedy, disheveled, clowns danced and sang a catchy ditty that included the phrase "rage in the parking lot" —the very lot in which the audience stood — while another bemoaned the current troubles he faces in this country.
I knew a handful of people who could relate: the fighters who I trained with every day at the boxing gym, a raggedy sweatbox in Brooklyn's Little Puerto Rico, a long left and a short right off the L train.
The video included Black Lives Matter Louisville leader Chanelle Helm repeatedly cursing and stating that she wished the GOP leader had "broken his little, raggedy, wrinkled-ass neck" instead of injuring his shoulder last weekend, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.
Every conceivable take regarding this move has been combed over and explored in the past two days, and the NBA discourse has eaten itself into a stomachache by devouring the nits and fleas off the raggedy coat of Durant's departure.
Her very first role, for the record, was in 1992, and in keeping with the efficiency theme, it wasn't one but two: She played both a banana and a tree in a suburban Detroit theater's production of Raggedy Ann and Andy.
But as art historian Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell noted in her analysis of Balenciaga's fake IKEA bag — which she called a "sign of the apocalypse" — the difference between ragged-looking designer duds and, well, actually raggedy clothing is in the details.
With his soot-begrimed face, fingerless gloves, crinkled top hat and raggedy trousers*, Winks scampered up the pitch in the 51st minute and poked home from close range, setting Spurs on their way to a famous comeback win in the London derby.
Observing that one gentleman he had photographed — Kanye West, whom Bill didn't identify — attended the 2016 Met Gala dressed in laboriously raggedy trousers and a bejeweled Balmain jacket, the seasoned octogenarian took this latest turning in the evolution of costume in stride.
Wilson Silva said he knew the homeless situation at Pennsylvania Station had grown "out of hand" when he found a man in raggedy clothing sleeping on a couch inside the shop he manages, Drago Shoe Repair, in the rail terminal's upper level.
Dragging this raggedy collection out of a 2-0 deficit to clinch the eighth consecutive finals appearance of James' career, with no Kyrie Irving at his side to share the burden, would have to rank as the second-shiniest entry on his resume.
And he had written the screenplays for a number of films set in Texas, among them "Raggedy Man" (21980), in which Sissy Spacek played a character based on his mother, who raised her two sons as a small-town telephone switchboard operator.
The game as it exists has less to do with actual raggedy pick-up basketball; if it did, rules would require each team to have one player who never passed and clapped his hands constantly and another guy wearing Timberlands and jeans.
There is maybe no one else as permanently dazzled by where earth came from or where it's going; no one as excited to inspect our raggedy edges, the shells and the oceans and the debris, the greasy fingerprints nature leaves on its own clothing.
Few can forget John Galliano's "homeless chic" 2000 show for Dior, in which purposely raggedy models strutted onto the runway swathed in "newspapers," clothes with torn linings or inside-out labels, frayed tulle glad rags, belts slung with little green empties of J&B whiskey.
The answer to all of his questions, he hopes, is Deckard, whom he finds living in an old casino parlor, with little to keep him company save for a raggedy dog and "millions of bottles of whiskey" (and we all know how dangerous that can be).
The trick is that when you put it on, you don't want to blend it too much because you want it too be a little obvious – like a Raggedy Ann at first — then when you layer the liquid foundation on top, that's when you blend it around.
As part of a traveling solo act, Rice wore a burnt-cork blackface mask and raggedy clothing, spoke in stereotypical black vernacular and performed a caricatured song and dance routine that he said he learned from a slave, according to the University of South Florida Library.
Back then, Apple still had the lion's share of the education market—over half of devices shipped to schools that year ran on iOS or Mac OS—and it had a new plan to replace raggedy, expensive textbooks with cheaper digital versions made to read on a tablet.
Yun's portals are the raggedy edged, geometric forms he achieved by working on the floor and applying diluted layers of burnt umber and ultramarine blue with a large brush until they turned mostly black, letting them soak into the support like ink into paper or rain into dry earth.
Style tropes from Northwest skate-rat culture were a point of departure for Derek Buse and Jo Sadler of the Los Angeles-based CWST, whose determinedly raggedy collection of "hobo chic" sportswear had the so-wrong-it's-right look one associates with the best Japanese men's wear design.
As Kyle Buchanan, Vulture's awards season savant, noted to the Bagger, it's interesting that Mr. DiCaprio could win for this raggedy, largely wordless role, considering the Oscar-nominated parts he has played before: kitten-faced autistic teenager, Wall Street hedonist, swashbuckling Hollywood golden boy/madman-in-waiting and gunrunner.
But the Foxes would not go quietly into that good night, no, as they converted a set piece into a glorious diving header by Wes Morgan: Mind you, this all happened in the first 17 minutes.... Seems like the top-billing is worth it—raggedy old Queen or not.
Most of us have found ourselves in this situation at some point in our lives: We make an appointment for a much-needed dusting to lose those raggedy split ends... only to leave the salon with a drastic new haircut that was only supposed to be an inch.
In an early Mickey Mouse short, a 1933 parody of the antislavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" called "Mickey's Mellerdrammer," Mickey blacks his face with dynamite to play Topsy, a crazy-haired, raggedy-dressed, comically unruly black child from the book whose name had become synonymous with the pickaninny stereotype.
In the same sense, though Yates has used the characters of Raggedy Ann and Andy as his proxy-family characters (both mother and father, and a set of children), he is attracted to them as highly abstracted symbols, recognizable but indistinct to the contemporary viewer, more than direct associations.
In a now infamous example of his identity-sampling, Jacobs plucked one of his runway ideas right off Wachowski's head, paying homage to her distinctive Raggedy Ann hairdo with madcap wigs styled as pastel dreadlocks in his spring 2017 runway show, which, to his surprise, drew charges of cultural appropriation.
For those who are already salivating for the next hot thing, the Fall/Winter 2019 collab features the textile stylings of Jonas Wood and boasts a textured finish created by an embroidery overlay of 200,000 stitches, certainly none of which will ever snag on anything, leaving your limited edition purse looking raggedy.
Why they might not: The last secretive twisty movie about a bunch of extremely colorful strangers who wash up at the same raggedy hotel together and start fighting each other was Identity, and the twist ending on that one was the kind of reveal that puts people off twist-ending movies in general.
So before you saunter off to play an Oak-clad wallflower at your next dark techno afterhours, remember that it was a bunch of guys in stovetop hats and raggedy-ass coat-tails who used to throw insane ragers in Morgan Ave warehouses... and then set them on fire back in 1999.
For a time, it was possible to believe this wordsmith would assume Cooper's legacy in the contemporary movie-star pantheon with the successive "Resurrection" (1980), "Raggedy Man" (1981), "Frances" (1982) -- whose star, Jessica Lange, became his longtime romantic partner -- and the movie for which he is still best remembered, "The Right Stuff" (1983).
Mr. Theyskens can cut a sweeping marigold moiré Victorian coat with a dash of poetry, disrupt it with denim, put a soupçon of Audrey Hepburn into a cap-sleeved leather mini, and bring it back down to earth with raggedy thigh-highs and black Beatle boots, but the clothes don't insist too much.
It's raggedy looking and only minimally different in content to the finished film, but it's of interest to fans who want to peer into the filmmakers' process; Russell Streiner, one of the film's producers, who also plays the memorable role of Johnny, who has the car keys, gives a thorough introduction to the supplement.
Mr. Burgerman's own inner child is evident in his joy at the raggedy-haired dog, the emoji-shaped cardboard pins he keeps for visitors to his studio at The Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn, or the stickers of neon bug-eyed pizzas, aliens and other creatures he carries around to paste onto public surfaces.
" In behind-the-scenes footage that premiered exclusively with PEOPLE, Brust shared his go-to video shoot day must-haves, which include a cowboy hat, a phone charger, a "backup turkey feather from a turkey you shot just in case the other feather is a little too raggedy," and "a little bourbon to wash it all down smooth.
How lucky, then, that we have the Azimovs to introduce us to Dungan food, which here unravels in noodles upon noodles, manifesting as pliant coils stretched long and thin; wide floppy sheets; raggedy drops made by rubbing the dough swiftly between the palms; and two-feet long lariats, looped in on themselves and fried to a snap.
The fragrance of each dish announces it long before it arrives, be it the smoke wafting off char kway teow, a dark heap of broad rice noodles, raggedy eggs, pork, shrimp and charred rings of squid, or the pungency of fish paste sealed between crispy sheets of tofu skin in a heady bowl of curry mee.
Let's start with the fact that she basically confirmed all of Bernie Sanders' worst suspicions about her innermost opinions about free trade and Wall Street — telling some of the world's fattest-cat bankers that they, and not those raggedy reformers, should play a central role in self-regulation and the government's response to the 433 global financial crisis.
A five-foot-long slab of corkboard painted Styrofoam white and displayed on a tabletop, it holds screws, washers, chewed gum, used matches, empty sugar packets, a broken yellow crayon, one bright-orange earplug and hundreds of other tiny discoveries, all more or less stepped on and raggedy but formally unified by a thin layer of gray filth.
My stuff wasn't just stuff, but a reminder that I had a foundation of support of people who had loved me growing up: a painting I'd done as a child that my mom had carefully framed and hung in our house, a set of antique Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls my ferret once chewed an eye out of when I was 15, artwork my mom had collected over the decade we lived in Alaska.
Adelman built Sacramento's open, free-cutting offense around Webber and Vlade Divac—"those two guys were our point guards, basically," Peja Stojakovic told Grantland's Jonathan Abrams in 2014—and Petrie won a pair of NBA Executive of the Year Awards, first after the 1999 season for building the raggedy, romping, super-fun iteration of the team that ran through Jason Williams, and then again in 2001 for shaping that into the comparatively more efficient but equally entertaining juggernaut that peaked at 63 wins in '01-02.

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