Examples of shagginess

• the winter shagginess of the grass

• The bison was distinguished, not only by his bulk, but by the superior depth and shagginess of his hair.

• He trimmed his beard and cut some of the shagginess out of his head.

• He saw only an expanse of low shagginess that might have been scrub growths of any kind.

• Like a drift of snow the huge wolf-hound whirled his white shagginess into the vestibule.

• Those creases in your face can no longer be dismissed as character lines; the shagginess of your eyebrows has the flying years to account for it.

• The spectral appearance of the flower is considerably heightened by the smooth, white, slipper-like lip, which contrasts so forcibly in color and texture with the lurid shagginess around it.

• He was black-haired and bull-necked, and there was about him a certain shagginess which a recent toilet performed at the horse trough had not served to mitigate.