Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Roughly; so as to he shagged: as, shaggily pilose.

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  • adverb In a shaggy way.

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  • adverb in a shaggy manner

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Examples

  • As much as the wryly funny, shaggily bearded Seubert will never be a "typical" anything, he is a case study in how an NFL player's life is affected now, at least until the April 6 hearing in federal court on the players' request to lift the lockout.

    Lockout Not a Big Obstacle for Giants' Seubert Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011

  • When his low-budget, trash-talking "Clerks" came out in 1994, it seemed shaggily revolutionary.

    The Laugh Factory 2008

  • His face, unwashed since yesterday, looked pallid and clammy; his hair was tossed shaggily about his forehead, and his closed eyes had the sunken look which follows upon watching and sorrow.

    Adam Bede 2004

  • Well! Here is my promontory, and there is the sea — IT rolleth hither unto me, shaggily and fawningly, the old, faithful, hundred – headed dog – monster that I love! —

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • All she could see of him was the back of his head where his dark, nearly black hair grew shaggily down his neck, and the sinewed contours of his sun-bronzed shoulders with his ridged spine running down the center.

    Wildcatter’s Woman Janet Dailey 1990

  • All she could see of him was the back of his head where his dark, nearly black hair grew shaggily down his neck, and the sinewed contours of his sun-bronzed shoulders with his ridged spine running down the center.

    Wildcatter’s Woman Janet Dailey 1990

  • Thick, slightly curling black hair tumbled across his forehead and grew shaggily down the back of his neck.

    Time for Yesterday A. C. Crispin 1990

  • All she could see of him was the back of his head where his dark, nearly black hair grew shaggily down his neck, and the sinewed contours of his sun-bronzed shoulders with his ridged spine running down the center.

    Wildcatter’s Woman Janet Dailey 1990

  • All she could see of him was the back of his head where his dark, nearly black hair grew shaggily down his neck, and the sinewed contours of his sun-bronzed shoulders with his ridged spine running down the center.

    Wildcatter’s Woman Janet Dailey 1990

  • The rest was piled up on top of his ears and hanging shaggily down over the collar of his suit coat, its light blond color similar to that of a competitive swimmer who spends five hours a day in a pool full of heavily chlorinated water.

    Will Liddy, G. Gordon 1980

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