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bedraggled

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be·drag·gled  (b-drgld)
adj.
1.
a. Wet; limp.
b. Soiled by or as if by having been dragged through mud.
2. Being in a condition of deterioration; dilapidated: a street of bedraggled tenements.

bedraggled [bɪˈdrægəld]
adj
(of hair, clothing, etc.) limp, untidy, or dirty, as with rain or mud
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.bedraggled - limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"
dirty, soiled, unclean - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"
2.bedraggledbedraggled - in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
damaged - harmed or injured or spoiled; "I won't buy damaged goods"; "the storm left a wake of badly damaged buildings"

bedraggled
Translations
bedraggled [bɪˈdrægld] ADJ [person] → desaliñado; [hair, feathers, fur] → enmarañado; [flowers] → mustio
bedraggled [bɪˈdrægəld] adjdépenaillé(e), débraillé(e)
bedraggled
adj (= wet)trief- or tropfnass; (= dirty)verdreckt; (= untidy) person, appearanceungepflegt, schlampig
bedraggled [bɪˈdrægld] adj (person, clothes) → sbrindellato/a; (hair) → scompigliato/a; (wet) → bagnato/a fradicio/a
bedraggled [bɪˈdrægld] adj (person, clothes) → sbrindellato/a; (hair) → scompigliato/a; (wet) → bagnato/a fradicio/a


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"In November I sometimes feel as if spring could never come again," she sighed, grieving over the hopeless unsightliness of her frosted and bedraggled flower-plots.
Still, I have seen ships issue from certain docks like half-dead prisoners from a dungeon, bedraggled, overcome, wholly disguised in dirt, and with their men rolling white eyeballs in black and worried faces raised to a heaven which, in its smoky and soiled aspect, seemed to reflect the sordidness of the earth below.
It was a tall, shabby building, that cannot have been painted for years, and it had so bedraggled an air that the houses on each side of it looked neat and clean.
 
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