craggy

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I can liken it to nothing but a vast sea; for a dense, blue mist covered the level surface, through which the domes of Florence rose up like a craggy island, while the thousands of scattered villas resembled ships, with spread sails, afloat on its surface.

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  1. adjective Having crags: craggy terrain.
  2. adjective Rugged and uneven: a craggy face.

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  • His face was craggy, and though he was Changi-thin, there was a grace to his movements and a sparkle about him. —  Clavell - King Rat
  • Law & Order: Regular (tonight, at 9 pm EDT, on NBC), where craggy-voiced Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston) takes over as District Attorney, and two new cast members (Linus Roache, pictured, and Jeremy Sisto) will join S. Epatha Merkerson, Jesse L. Martin, and Alana De La Garza on crime-solving detail. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • It may not have taken off like frozen yogurt, and it's got a hell of a lot more calories, but we love Beard Papa's cream puffs for all their bulbous, craggy, pock-marked crustiness, with a vanilla custard cream that's pumped in only after you order.
  • That's a shame, said town resident Kelly Cloyd, for the lake's western edge has a bounty of unique features such as craggy cliffs and inlets. —  MPNnow Home RSS
  • But the Nazis usually took care to personalize the Jew as a craggy, hook-nosed ghoul - an image meant to further the idea that Jews were so genetically inferior as to be literally inhuman. —  Gates of Vienna
 

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  1. from Middle English craggy; from crag + -y.
 

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/ˈkrægi/
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