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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
| Type of | pick apart, knock, criticise, criticize |
| Has types | objurgate, correct, chastise, brush down, chasten, castigate, tell off |
The deputy ragged the Prime Minister.
rag::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | ragtime |
| Type of | dance music |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | shred, tag, tag end, tatter |
| Type of | piece of cloth, piece of material |
| Has types | pine-tar rag |
rag::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rile, vex |
| Type of | displease |
| Has types | fret, antagonize, chevvy, chevy, ruffle, chivvy, hassle, chivy, get, eat into, harass, harry, grate, get under one's skin, antagonise, plague, peeve, beset, provoke, molest, rankle |
| Verb group | chafe |
rag::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | practical joke |
Examples of rag
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There are jobs being added, but this liberal rag of a paper doesn't report them.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Instead we pulled off, and left him in the street with nothing but his wash rag.
From the kentucky.com
The student association organises events including the RAG Week and Summer Ball.
From the telegraph.co.uk
To stock her warehouse, she sorts through piles of old clothes at rag factories.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Disgraceful to see this unpatriotic rag running down a British IT success story.
From the guardian.co.uk
Although leftwing and Scottish, I found the Daily Record to be an appalling rag.
From the guardian.co.uk
He wore a dark blue sweatshirt and black pants and had a dark rag over his face.
From the thenewstribune.com
Music drifts from a 1970s Impala parked at a makeshift, bucket-and-rag car wash.
From the courier-journal.com
When she tried to break free, Merriman shook her like a rag doll, the suit said.
From the denverpost.com
- A small piece of cloth or paper
- Torment: treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
- A week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
- Annoy: cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"
- Play in ragtime; "rag that old tune"
- Ragtime: music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
- A raga or raag (literally "color, hue" but also "beauty, melody"; also spelled raaga, ragam; pronounced ru0101ga, or ru0101gam or "raag") is one of the melodic modes used in traditional South Asian music genres such as Indian classical music and qawwali.
- A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by spinning raw wool fibres, linen, cotton, or other material on a spinning wheel to produce long strands. ...
- Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three. ...
