ragged

Modifying Another Word

• rather: There are, at this point, some rather ragged edges of the rock sides, caused probably by solution.
• little: Cons: Looks a little ragged around the edges.
• very: I look very ragged my hair hasn't been washed in two months!
• so: Dai's clothes were so ragged and he looked so wan that the farmer's Welsh heart went out to him.
• somewhat: The development drama, tho now somewhat ragged, was allowed to resume its course.
• slightly: Lovely, slightly ragged, bedroom studio production values.

Preposition: around

edge: Cons: Looks a little ragged around the edges.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• run: Whatever the distance, he still runs many younger men ragged.
• look: Once on wider roads, the Tanner group could see the leaders who were starting to look a bit ragged.
• leave: Paving was laid from the middle outwards, leaving the edges ragged and uneven to keep in with the setting.

Modifies a noun

• robin: Another sign of the advancing season is the ragged robin.
• rascal: Here, open out; we must join in driving these ragged rascals back on the center.
• cloak: He wears a long ragged cloak and an old wide-brimmed hat, so you can't see his eyes.
• edge: Too near the ragged edge to let down even for an hour.
• clothes: Then Cinderella looked down at her old ragged clothes.
• margin: Paragraphs are usually rendered flush left with a ragged right margin.

Used with adjective complement

• run: Dundee looked like a draw would do, having been run ragged for most of the game.
• look: Toward the end, some of the corps of eight were looking very ragged.
• become: In the end fitness told and as the tackling became ragged Chatham House ran in a number of tries.
• get: The shadows were getting longer and the wind getting more ragged with stronger gusts.