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UK
/bɪdɹˈæɡəld/
]
[ US /bɪˈdɹæɡəɫd/ ]
[ US /bɪˈdɹæɡəɫd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud
the beggar's bedraggled clothes
scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts -
in deplorable condition
a street of bedraggled tenements
a ramshackle old pier
a broken-down fence
a tumble-down shack
How To Use bedraggled In A Sentence
- Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
- She was all cold and bedraggled after falling into the river.
- Jamie grunted, combing down his long, bedraggled, messy hair with his hand.
- After scrambling up the steep banks and ploughing through the undergrowth with my boat in tow, I emerged bedraggled and muddy.
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- Any day now the 11,000th visitor will wander into a small shopping arcade off the bedraggled main street of Sittingbourne in Kent, between the cash-for-gold jeweller's and the discount shop selling bales of cheap loo rolls, set down their shopping bags, and watch the history of Kent being rewritten. How Sittingbourne discovered an archaeological treasure trove
- On the other hand, this will not be a great night for couture designers; Jack is a driven character, but also short, tubby and bedraggled, heedless of fashion's demands.
- Milly was sitting on the bed, her hair bedraggled and looked up in surprise when I ran in.
- Thus they went, a sopping sodden mess, each following the other out of the Square past the tall pines of the Mission and the Officers bedraggled salute.
- Torrential rain put a damper on the event, sending bedraggled guests squelching across lawns to seek shelter.