bedraggle
Example Sentences
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I turned back to watch the miracle man as he surveyed his bedraggled troops, his young face pinched with worry.
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The map was safely stowed in his pocket, wet and bedraggled but still readable.
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Faint gray crescents ring his tired brown eyes, and his bedraggled curls are longer than usual.
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Then she caught a glimpse of her reflection, bedraggled and wide-eyed.
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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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.