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Discover LudwigThe word "cragged" is correct in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is rugged, jagged, or rough in appearance, often referring to landscapes or surfaces.
Example: "The cragged cliffs rose sharply from the sea, creating a dramatic backdrop for the sunset."
Alternatives: "Jagged" or "Rugged."
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cragged
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Having crags
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But the right takes cyclists through a beautiful old-growth forest and past a cragged yet majestic cherry tree believed to be more than 800 years old that has been designated one of Japan's natural national treasures.
The mules would transport supplies and equipment, and, in particular, they would thread their way up the Hindu Kush along the narrow, cragged mountain trails, carrying the cumbersome anti-aircraft missiles that were proving effective against the Soviet Air Force.
Precipices, peaks on peaks, so cragged and so wild, it lies unseen and virgin-like".
Here two scrawled figures confront each other against a cragged, gray background that, suggesting an urban wall, recasts them as giant graffiti.
One day I rode the gondola to the top, put on skins (a mohair and nylon fabric that attaches to skis so they won't slide backward when going uphill) and plodded my way past the summit of Mount Apharwat (over 13,500 feet high), before skiing an exhilarating route known as Khilanmarg 3, which descends down a narrow bowl, then through a thin stand of birch trees that reminded me of cragged old men.
Like our own, the world of Red Dead Redemption — its cantinas, dusty arroyos, railway stations and cragged peaks — is one in which good does not always prevail and yet altruism rarely goes unrewarded.
Nelson's slightly idealized oil portrait of the former South African president is beautifully suited to the man's cragged yet somehow still energetic-looking face, depicted here in his elder-statesman years — white hair, eyes stern yet serene, gaze aimed directly at the reader.
Once at the peak, it continued upward, as if loosening the grip of gravity, and floated beyond the river's cragged mountaintops.
The quotation is superfluous to the argument, but it is good advice, and would be even better were it closer to what Donne actually wrote: On a huge hill Cragged and steep, Truth stands, and he that will Reach her, about must, and about must go, And what the hill's suddenness resists, win so.
Each has a weak spot, but scaling their cragged bodies to reach the glowing stab points involves a lot more falling off and swearing than seems appropriate to an epic hero.
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The Penn Station excavation was the ultimate sidewalk superintendent's vista, a vast swath of the city being replaced with a rock-cragged pit, a man-made canyon.
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