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UK
/ɹˈæɡbæɡ/
]
NOUN
- a bag in which rags are kept
- a motley assortment of things
How To Use ragbag In A Sentence
- The search for a replacement cause brought with it shallow opportunism, the honing of public relations skills and a ragbag of nostrums, some of them purloined from its political opponents.
- Somebody appears to have gone to an immense amount of trouble to assemble a ragbag of every kind of mumbo-jumbo and superstition; a great waste of time, in my opinion.
- He summarises the anti-capitalists' annual international get-together at Porto Alegre in Brazil as ‘a ragbag of declamation, hot air and vapidity’.
- This is a ragbag of delights and compromises, as all such compilations are.
- This brings the unwanted attentions of local despot Hatcher who, with his ragbag of cut-throat henchmen, sets out to destroy the heroes and nab the treasure for himself.
- The constitutional renewal bill, now becalmed in parliament, is a ragbag of issues.
- So I hope voters will vote for one, and not ragbag independent candidates. Peter Baggs - Independent candidate for Norwich North
- A healthy, slightly overweight man had been reduced to a ragbag of bones in a matter of months.
- Media exposés like the BBC's The Secret Agent have helped to transform a ragbag party into the talking point of British politics.
- The sales tax on clothing should drop into the ragbag of history, a move that Mayor Giuliani proposed and Albany rejected.