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单词 saggy
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Definition of saggy in English:

saggy

adjectivesaggier, saggiest ˈsaɡiˈsæɡi
  • 1Tending to sink or bulge downwards under weight or pressure.

    the saggy mattress groaned under my weight
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I've only got one pillow, and it's floppy, saggy, and skinny.
    • Lee removed some nails from one side of the chair's saggiest webbing so we could tighten it.
    • Wouldn't heavier wood make the spears saggier?
    • Instead, he sits in his saggy armchair all day, and possibly all night, dipping into a bottle of whisky.
    • Every house was full of flaws—leaky roofs, draughty rooms, saggy floors—and memories.
    • What's more fun than spending too much money for lousy restaurant food served on saggy paper plates?
    • Had to spend most of the day lying on a saggy sofa.
    • He walked under the trees, ducking under some particularly saggy branches, until he came to a ridge.
    • He is perfectly happy in his saggy old bed.
    • Some of the easiest problems to fix include gutters sagging from the weight of the ice, stained or saggy ceilings, and loose roof shingles.
    1. 1.1 Hanging down loosely; drooping.
      a facelift can reduce saggy skin and wrinkles
      saggy jeans
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Shirts hide big bellies, jeans cloak cellulite, bras hold up saggy breasts.
      • He strode on to the stage in a salmon pink shirt—paunchy and saggier than in his TV pin-up youth, but with the same piercing blue eyes.
      • Go from old and saggy to young and pert in just 10 days!
      • It was just a saggy old cloth cat, but Emily loved him.
      • Why should we be doomed to grow old, gray, yellow and saggy before we turn to ashes and dust?
      • Her body was droopy and her eyes saggy.
      • They stand there in their saggy Y-fronts thinking they look like Jonny Wilkinson.
      • It gets tricky if you have short legs and also a saggy rear.
      • Naturally, he paired his lack of shirt with the saggiest trousers man could create.
      • Plastic surgeons believe they may have found a better way to beat that most irrepressible sign of early aging—the saggy neck.

Rhymes

Aggie, baggy, craggy, draggy, jaggy, Maggie, quaggy, scraggy, shaggy, slaggy, snaggy

Definition of saggy in US English:

saggy

adjectiveˈsæɡiˈsaɡē
  • 1Tending to sink or bulge downward under weight or pressure.

    the saggy mattress groaned under my weight
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He is perfectly happy in his saggy old bed.
    • What's more fun than spending too much money for lousy restaurant food served on saggy paper plates?
    • He walked under the trees, ducking under some particularly saggy branches, until he came to a ridge.
    • Some of the easiest problems to fix include gutters sagging from the weight of the ice, stained or saggy ceilings, and loose roof shingles.
    • Lee removed some nails from one side of the chair's saggiest webbing so we could tighten it.
    • Every house was full of flaws—leaky roofs, draughty rooms, saggy floors—and memories.
    • I've only got one pillow, and it's floppy, saggy, and skinny.
    • Had to spend most of the day lying on a saggy sofa.
    • Instead, he sits in his saggy armchair all day, and possibly all night, dipping into a bottle of whisky.
    • Wouldn't heavier wood make the spears saggier?
    1. 1.1 Hanging down loosely; drooping.
      a facelift can reduce saggy skin and wrinkles
      saggy jeans
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Go from old and saggy to young and pert in just 10 days!
      • It was just a saggy old cloth cat, but Emily loved him.
      • Her body was droopy and her eyes saggy.
      • Shirts hide big bellies, jeans cloak cellulite, bras hold up saggy breasts.
      • He strode on to the stage in a salmon pink shirt—paunchy and saggier than in his TV pin-up youth, but with the same piercing blue eyes.
      • They stand there in their saggy Y-fronts thinking they look like Jonny Wilkinson.
      • Plastic surgeons believe they may have found a better way to beat that most irrepressible sign of early aging—the saggy neck.
      • Naturally, he paired his lack of shirt with the saggiest trousers man could create.
      • It gets tricky if you have short legs and also a saggy rear.
      • Why should we be doomed to grow old, gray, yellow and saggy before we turn to ashes and dust?
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