Synonym: annoy, bait, bawl out, bedevil, berate, bother, call down, call on the carpet, chafe, chew out, chew up, chide, cod, crucify, devil, dress down, dun, frustrate, get at, get to, gravel, have words, irritate, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, nark, nettle, rag week, ragtime, rally, razz, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, ride, rile, scold, sheet, shred, tabloid, tag, tag end, take to task, tantalise, tantalize, tatter, taunt, tease, torment, trounce, twit, vex. Similar words: rage, drag, drag in, tragic, drag on, for ages, garage, storage. Meaning: [ræg] n. 1. a small piece of cloth or paper 2. a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities 3. music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano) 4. newspaper with half-size pages 5. a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students). v. 1. treat cruelly 2. cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations 3. play in ragtime 4. harass with persistent criticism or carping 5. censure severely or angrily 6. break into lumps before sorting.
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61. A small quantity of oil is sprinkled on a clean rag and rubbed well into the surface to be polished.
62. The second was propped, ungainly as a rag doll, against the far wall.
63. Do we need this old Graeco-Roman game - like Eliot's Shakespeherian rag, so elegant, so intelligent?
64. With sudden inspiration she tore off another rag of petticoat and tied it back.
65. I still think of this when I rip up an old vest for a piece of silver-polishing rag.
66. When they tossed the used rag of my body from the railings, I fought like a cat but only ice-water listened.
67. It can be adapted to clothing and Clarks intends to sell its expertise to the rag trade.
68. Isaac swabbed perspiration from above his haunted eyes with a rag he kept handy for cleaning the windshield.
69. But they slipped back inside, leaving his smile hanging like a rag on a stick.
70. Hand woven needlepoint and rag rugs, cushions, throws and fabric accessories.
71. I advertised in the local rag, but to no avail.
72. The thin cake was hard and resistant as a frozen rag.
73. The rag trade adopted the same approach when it came to designing and flogging its clobber.
74. There appears to be a growing dissatisfaction with Rag in several universities across the country.
75. It hung limply from the tubercular shoulders of its master like a wet rag on a cardboard donkey.
76. He was lying in the path, a filthy rag of mud and blood, more dead than alive. Sentencedict.com
77. I ran up to the guest room, stripped naked and washed myself with a wet rag.
78. When I got back to the villa, I saw a red rag tied to the balcony.
79. Can't you see how obscene it is to get him dressed up and wheel him around like a big rag doll?
80. But that wretched Sandra would have had a field day too - her picture in the local rag in her best dress.
81. Beware of an opportunist rag trade beginning to sell you recycled clothing under the guise of social awareness.
82. That was when Kleiber had given up the struggle and collapsed, limp and helpless as a rag doll.
83. Despite knowing all this, and caring about it, I would sometimes lose the rag with him.
84. And yet I didn't want to be consigned to the rag trade.
85. And it took you all your time to get them decent again with a wet rag.
86. Colin hated the way he inspected the rag before folding the contents into the centre and forcing it into his trouser pocket.
87. Naturally this was like a red rag to a bull and I refused to even consider such a course of action.
88. I touched the tip of the rag through my skirt and felt it move against my skin.
89. He crawls out, his face streaked with oil, and dries himself with a rag.
90. Rag, lugworm, whites, peeler crabs, whelks, shrimps, cockles and even odd razor-fish can be collected.
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