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bedraggled [bɪˈdrægəld] adj
(of hair, clothing, etc.) limp, untidy, or dirty, as with rain or mud ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
bedraggled adjective messy, soiled, dirty, disordered, stained, dripping, muddied, muddy, drenched, ruffled, untidy, sodden, sullied, dishevelled, rumpled, unkempt, tousled, disarranged, disarrayed a bedraggled group of journalists Translations bedraggled [bɪˈdrægld] ADJ [person] → desaliñado; [hair, feathers, fur] → enmarañado; [flowers] → mustio bedraggled adj (= wet) → trief- or tropfnass; (= dirty) → verdreckt; (= untidy) person, appearance → ungepflegt, schlampig How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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