Definitions

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  • adverb In a jagged manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb with a ragged and uneven appearance

Etymologies

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jagged +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Now, the army jeep had been shot at, over and over, its siding saturated with dime-sized punctures, the edges of which peeled jaggedly outward, like thorns.

    Empty Homes, Empty Windows Peter Kispert 2011

  • Perfection if not for the silvery scar jaggedly cutting a path that began at his shoulder and disappeared beneath the low-hanging waist of his plaid.

    Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011

  • Mr. Hollinghurst holds a cracked mirror to his fictional world—the narrative is broken into five jaggedly connected and richly ironic sections—but the formal complexity is wedded to voluptuously descriptive prose that would not have been out of place in the London of 1913, where the book begins.

    Synthesis and Ambivalence Sam Sacks 2011

  • Now, the army jeep had been shot at, over and over, its siding saturated with dime-sized punctures, the edges of which peeled jaggedly outward, like thorns.

    Empty Windows, Empty Rooms Peter Kispert 2011

  • Christophe Vorlet All the way from the Civil War when a barrel of oil cost roughly $168 in today's money to the early 1970s, the oil price, adjusted for inflation, sloped jaggedly downward.

    That's Oil, Folks: Why You Don't Need More in Your Portfolio Jason Zweig 2011

  • Perfection if not for the silvery scar jaggedly cutting a path that began at his shoulder and disappeared beneath the low-hanging waist of his plaid.

    Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011

  • The base of it stuck jaggedly up from the back of the throne quite obviously.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • The base of it stuck jaggedly up from the back of the throne quite obviously.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • The base of it stuck jaggedly up from the back of the throne quite obviously.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • Most begin halfway or fully at “Hurray!” and slope off jaggedly to “Blah.”

    Sex and Storytelling 2009

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