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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91. Harold Steptoe, for all his bourgeois dreams, was fated to live in a rag and bone shop.
92. Where you and I see blue blazers, the Manchester United captain sees a red rag.
93. It is fair to warn anglers that thousands of crabs soon make short work of rag and lugworm.
94. He fed it lots of oil and wiped at it all the time with an oily rag so it shone.
95. He had found Bert giving the machine a final wipe over with an oily rag.
96. As the fumes spread, they were ignited by the flaming rag and exploded.
97. And take the Prime Minister and the rest of the rag, tag and bobtail with you.
98. Petey watched him lift the suitcase off the bed and put it on the round rag rug.
99. He grabbed her collar, dragging her clear and across the mud like a life-size rag doll.
100. A couple of lads grab hold of the Monkey and stuff a rag in his mouth.
101. Ryan stood on the little platform by the blackboard, cleaning the board with a rag.
102. However, codes of practice may yet be introduced that curb the distasteful excesses of Rag.
103. Such developments were, for Draper, red rag to a bull - hence his recourse to history for the counterattack.
104. They're not all that good, but they're better than that soaking wet rag you're wearing now.
105. She got up and fetched a rag, wiped herself clean, and did the same to him.
106. Later child psychologists have noted how older children find and hang on to a favoured object such as a rag.
107. Any surplus glue can be easily wiped off with a rag and then with solvent.
108. The garage guy soon joined him,[http://sentencedict.com/rag.html] wiping an oily rag with his oily fingers.
109. No such inhibitions stunt the growth of the rag trade at the polar opposite point from the basking Sloanes.
110. Behaviour which seems innocuous to one person can be a red rag to another.
111. As a city it has a great deal to offer - especially to some one like myself who works in the rag trade.
112. Brush on the dye, working with the grain, and rag off any excess.
113. That idea was already red rag enough to the old gentleman.
114. Maddened by the limp rag doll banging against his legs, he veered to the left.
115. He was just one of the rag tag and bobtail.
116. He was wiping his hands on a rag.
117. The two ladies began to chew the rag.
118. That was a red rag to Israel.
119. Why do you read that worthless rag?
120. I've only once seen him lose his rag.
More similar words: rage, drag, drag in, tragic, drag on, for ages, garage, storage, paragon, fragile, fragment, coverage, encourage, courageous, discourage, on average, pragmatic, discouraged, encouraging, all over again.