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  • adjective superlative form of jagged: most jagged.

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Examples

  • The Rockies, preferably, in their jaggedest portions.

    Gigolo Edna Ferber 1926

  • Thee that another week has been wheeled along through the sand, about a foot deep between here and the woods, and over them rotten spiles on the way to the Point, and them four or five jaggedest boulders at the fork o 'the woods -- I wish there needn't be quite so much zigzagging and shuffling in their seats by them 't have come in barefoot afore the

    Vesty of the Basins Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895

  • To make walls secure against marauders, many of them were finished on top with broken bottles imbedded in lime, leaving the cutting edges sticking up; but with bunches of grass and weeds we could sit or stand in comfort on top of the jaggedest of them.

    The Story of My Boyhood and Youth John Muir 1876

  • Pink puffs of Chilean flamingos aglow in the dusky light; black-necked swans drifting on the silver brimming water; a silvery grebe with its long narrow nozzle of a bill darting across the mud; the strange opaque color of the water (due to calcium carbonate from the glaciers), as of frosted glass; the horses being watered by the two horsemen; quarreling, sportive stray dogs here with us among the purple tufts of bending grasses along the margins of the huge lake-and away in the distance the jaggedest, most savage-looking mountains I have ever seen, whether here in the Andes or in the Rockies or the Sierra Nevada or the Himalaya: a heap of diorite shards like a palisade erected by God in anger to keep two worlds apart … MORE HERE

    GoodShit 2009

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