Words that rhyme with laggard
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battered
adj 1: damaged by blows or hard usage; "a battered old car"; "the beaten-up old Ford" [syn: battered, beat-up, beaten-up] 2: damaged especially by hard usage; "his battered old hat" 3: exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury; "a battered child"; "the battered woman syndrome" -
blackguard
n 1: someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog" [syn: cad, bounder, blackguard, dog, hound, heel] v 1: subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday" [syn: ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun] 2: use foul or abusive language towards; "The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket"; "The angry mother shouted at the teacher" [syn: abuse, clapperclaw, blackguard, shout] -
clapboard
n 1: a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below [syn: clapboard, weatherboard, weatherboarding] v 1: cover with clapboards -
dogged
adj 1: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" [syn: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding] -
haggard
adj 1: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn] 2: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted] n 1: British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925) [syn: Haggard, Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard] -
jagged
adj 1: having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs" [syn: jagged, jaggy, scraggy] 2: having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed [syn: erose, jagged, jaggy, notched, toothed] -
legged
adj 1: having legs of a specified kind or number; "four-legged animals"; "a peg-legged man" [ant: legless] -
niggard
n 1: a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend [syn: niggard, skinflint, scrooge, churl] -
ragged
adj 1: being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn; "clothes as ragged as a scarecrow's"; "a ragged tramp" 2: worn out from stress or strain; "run ragged" 3: having an irregular outline; "text set with ragged right margins"; "herded the class into a ragged line" -
rugged
adj 1: sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture" [ant: delicate] 2: having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface; "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile" [syn: furrowed, rugged] [ant: unfurrowed] 3: topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground" [syn: broken, rugged] 4: very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution; "a rugged competitive examination"; "the rugged conditions of frontier life"; "the competition was tough"; "it's a tough life"; "it was a tough job" [syn: rugged, tough] -
sluggard
n 1: an idle slothful person [syn: sluggard, slug] -
barelegged
adj 1: having the legs uncovered by clothing; "barelegged children on the beach" -
unsugared
adj 1: with no sugar added -
catered
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staggered
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maggard
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thagard
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thaggard
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