Bedraggled Definition

bĭ-drăgəld
adjective
Wet, drenched, or messy.
Bedraggled clothes.
American Heritage
Being in a condition of deterioration; dilapidated.
A street of bedraggled tenements.
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Wet and limp; unkempt.

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Decaying, decrepit or dilapidated.

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verb

Simple past tense and past participle of bedraggle.

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Bedraggled Sentence Examples

  • The people were as bedraggled as any of the barbaric clans around Tiyan.

  • Sherlock Holmes was seated in his favorite armchair, across from Munro who sat somewhat bedraggled on the edge of the sofa.

  • A male White Wagtail was in the carpark and a rather bedraggled male Wheatear was on the short turf near the beach.

  • On warm summer days, the kids would get out the shampoo and hosepipe and he'd soon be a very bedraggled doggie indeed.

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