adverb
1. In a ragged manner, unevenly, especially not in unison
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2. As I crouch down, senses overloading my brain like an ocean liner bearing down on a rowboat, I notice in a vaguely disembodied way that one of the vanes on my nocked arrow has come halfway unglued and now hangs raggedly from the shaft.
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3. We have three or four raggedly curious winds attached to our flag pole playing their various musical instruments all around us like circus performers on their way to market.
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4. The stereotypical mentally ill person is a raggedly dressed man or woman muttering to him or herself, pushing a supermarket cart loaded with old clothes and plastic bags along the sidewalk.
