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craggy

/ˈkɹæɡ.i/ adjective C2
  1. Characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features. · The goat climbed up the craggy rocks.· The old man had craggy, uncultured features, but had bright, intelligent eyes.

Comparative craggier · Superlative craggiest

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Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 67 · C1
We stumbled slowly along in the darkness, with the black loom of the craggy hills around us, and the yellow speck of light burning steadily in front.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 123 · C1
I found the black tor upon which I had seen the solitary watcher, and from its craggy summit I looked out myself across the melancholy downs.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 135 · C1
Their number was formidable, now that he had begun to fear, and yet these names, powerful though they were, had often caused him to smile with the same kind of satisfaction experienced by a traveller who from the summit of a mountain beholds at his feet the craggy eminences, the almost impassable paths, and the fearful chasms, through which he has so perilously climbed.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 736 · C1

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