bedraggle
Example Sentences
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The map was safely stowed in his pocket, wet and bedraggled but still readable.
From Literature
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Faint gray crescents ring his tired brown eyes, and his bedraggled curls are longer than usual.
From Literature
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Then she caught a glimpse of her reflection, bedraggled and wide-eyed.
From Literature
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Her over-romanticized vision of life across the pond, fueled by love stories like “Sense and Sensibility” set in pastoral England, starts out more bedraggled than charmed.
From Los Angeles Times
"There's always people looking a little bedraggled who just want something filling and probably with a vegetable in it," Ayesha Kalaji, from restaurant Queen of Cups said.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.