ragged
ra guhd
- v treat cruelly
- v cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- v play in ragtime
- v harass with persistent criticism or carping
- v censure severely or angrily
The deputy ragged the Prime Minister - v break into lumps before sorting
- s being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn
clothes as ragged as a scarecrow's
a ragged tramp - s worn out from stress or strain
run ragged - s having an irregular outline
text set with ragged right margins
herded the class into a ragged line
- Into the hospital at Pisco, Peru last month came a tired, ragged Indian woman from the foothills of the Andes.
- What is the crime this ragged bunch has committed? It is simply that they are Hmong, mostly the children, grandchildren or even great-grandchildren of fighters who in the 1960s .
- Solemnly the ragged men proclaimed themselves a National Committee of Liberation, assumed the powers of a temporary Government for the freed areas of Yugoslavia.