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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Full of crags; abounding with broken rocks; rugged with projecting points of rock.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having hills and crags

Etymologies

  1. From crag + -y (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “I don't even remember whether "craggy" is a real word.”

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  • “Still, federal officials insisted the Peguis relocate, to land along Lake Winnipeg that is often described as craggy swampland.”

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  • “I still have confidence in him, but as someone not entirely au fait with all the technical stuff, that might be because I am associating him with the only other chap who was habitually described as craggy, the actor Jack Hawkins, who was convincing in any number of roles as a clear-thinking, tough-talking man of action.”

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  • “He had a face not unlike the oak trees whose wood he admired, which is to say craggy, and a disposition to match.”

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  • “Most of the time Imus is simply bitching like a bitter old man, and genuine misanthropy has its own kind of craggy integrity in a media biosphere where the on-air talent glisten like fresh produce and need PIN codes to access their emotions.”

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  • “Whatever happened to the 'craggy' look, I say. posted by Glyn Davies at”

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  • “He has this great long, kind of craggy face --it's actually not craggy yet but it will be wonderfully so in about 15 years.”

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  • “He had the kind of face that a gushing female would probably describe, Malone thought, as "craggy," but it didn't look in the least attractive to Malone.”

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  • “In conditions of this kind he always turned to seek for something mentally "craggy," as Byron said, and at Cowes he wonderfully found the writings of Nietzsche.”

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  • “Isolated, ominous and crawling with insanity and evil, it's the kind of craggy, windswept place that Max Cady -- Robert De Niro's homicidal hick from”

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