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bedraggled
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective bedraggled has 2 senses
- bedraggled(s = adj.all) draggled - limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"
- bedraggled(s = adj.all) broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down - in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
THESAURUS
bedraggled
beat-up, befouled, besmirched, blowzy, careless, chintzy, decrepit, defiled, dilapidated, dirtied, dirty, down-at-heel, drabbled, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, drenched, faded, fouled, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grubby, grungy, in rags, informal, loose, lumpen, messy, muddy, mussy, negligent, poky, ragged, raggedy, ruinous, run-down, scraggly, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, smirched, smudged, soaked, soiled, sordid, spotted, squalid, stained, sullied, tacky, tainted, tarnished, tattered, threadbare, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy, wet
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