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Raggedness

noun

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

Shabbiness by virtue of being in rags.

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"Raggedness" Quotes from Famous Books

... wickedness were very dreadful. Boys not yet in their teens staggered by half-tipsy, or lounged at the doors of gin-shops. Bonnetless girls roamed about singing and squabbling. Forlorn babies played in the gutter, and men and women in every stage of raggedness and degradation marred the beauty of that fair ...

— Shawl-Straps - A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag • Louisa M. Alcott

... of line in different degrees of firmness, roughness, raggedness, or smooth and flowing. There are the degrees of direction of line, curvilinear or angular. On the angular side all variations from the perpendicular and horizontal, or rectangle, within which we may find all ...

— Line and Form (1900) • Walter Crane

... fever-mixture (see above) every four hours. If possible, bring the two edges of the wound together, but do not strain the parts to do this. If they cannot be brought together, on account of a piece of flesh being taken clean out, or the raggedness of their edges, put lint dipped in cold water over the wound, and cover it with oiled silk. It will then fill up from the bottom. If the wound, after being well washed, should still contain any sand, or grit of any kind, or if it should get ...

— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton

Words linked to "Raggedness" : scratchiness, thorniness, ragged, tweediness, scaliness, manginess, graininess, knot, burl, abrasiveness, sleaziness, granularity, harshness, slub, shagginess, spininess, shabbiness, bristliness, prickliness, bumpiness, texture, seediness, coarseness, smoothness, nubbiness