Thesaurus / bedraggled
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Warmer water means fewer nutrients, so some birds may be fueling up out at sea for longer, delaying their return to the colony or turning up bedraggled and unappealing.
ALBATROSSES DIVORCE MORE OFTEN WHEN OCEAN WATERS WARMRICHARD KEMENYNOVEMBER 24, 2021SCIENCE NEWSThey presented an uncouth spectacle bedraggled as they were with grime and dirty water.
SPACEWRECKED ON VENUSNEIL R. JONESMrs. John C. was bedraggled from loss of sleep, and defeat sat upon her shining brow.
COUNTRY NEIGHBORSALICE BROWNHe is dressed neither in a rainbow, nor bedraggled with blood.
LECTURES ON LANDSCAPEJOHN RUSKINProfessor Zepplin made a joke of his own bedraggled condition, and the boys gave slight heed to theirs.
THE PONY RIDER BOYS IN TEXASFRANK GEE PATCHINThe bedraggled cat lapped milk, protected from the resentful jealousy of the station's regular feline attach by the one-eyed cook.
BLOW THE MAN DOWNHOLMAN DAYIndeed, it would be hard to imagine a more uninteresting, bedraggled, down-at-the-heel place than this.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY THROUGH THE PHILIPPINESFLORENCE KIMBALL RUSSELSurely there never showed a less heroic figure on a stranger defiance than that of Mr. Peabody, torn, bedraggled, and besmeared.
WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDSJOHN RUSSELLSuch an adventure attempted by as bedraggled a cavalier as he, might easily land him in a police station.
HIGH NOONANONYMOUSIt was as if by doing so, he could only reach her mud-spattered and chipped and bedraggled, an unworthy, battered object.
BALLOONSELIZABETH BIBESCOWORDS RELATED TO BEDRAGGLED
- all in
- beat
- bedraggled
- blasé
- burned out
- bushed
- dead
- dead tired
- dead-beat
- dog-tired
- dog-weary
- done in
- droopy
- dropping
- enervated
- exhausted
- fagged out
- jaded
- languid
- languorous
- lassitudinous
- listless
- out of gas
- overtired
- played-out
- pooped
- prostrate
- ready to drop
- spent
- tuckered
- washed out
- wasted
- weary
- worn
- worn-out
- zonked
- all the worse for wear
- bare
- bedraggled
- broken-down
- crummy
- cure
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- degenerated
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- dog-eared
- down-at-heel
- faded
- frayed
- gone to seed
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- miserable
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- pot
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run down
- rundown
- scruffy
- seedy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- tatty
- threadbare
- tired
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
- ailing
- beat up
- bedraggled
- crummy
- decaying
- decrepit
- dingy
- dog-eared
- down-at-the-heel
- drooping
- droopy
- faded
- flagging
- frowzy
- gone to seed
- grubby
- in a bad way
- mangy
- messy
- neglected
- old
- overgrown
- poor
- poorly
- ragged
- ratty
- sagging
- scruffy
- shabby
- sickly
- sleazy
- slovenly
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- threadbare
- tired
- torn
- unkempt
- untidy
- unwell
- used up
- wilted
- wilting
- worn
- ailing
- beat-up
- bedraggled
- crummy
- decaying
- decrepit
- dingy
- dog-eared
- down-at-the-heel
- drooping
- droopy
- faded
- flagging
- frowzy
- gone to seed
- grubby
- in a bad way
- mangy
- messy
- neglected
- old
- overgrown
- poor
- poorly
- ragged
- ratty
- sagging
- scruffy
- shabby
- sickly
- sleazy
- slovenly
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- threadbare
- tired
- torn
- unkempt
- untidy
- unwell
- used-up
- wilted
- wilting
- worn
- bare
- bedraggled
- crummy
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- degenerated
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- dog-eared
- faded
- frayed
- gone to seed
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- miserable
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run-down
- scrubby
- scruffy
- seedy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- threadbare
- tired
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
- bare
- bedraggled
- crummy
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- degenerated
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- dog-eared
- faded
- frayed
- gone to seed
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- miserable
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run down
- scrubby
- scruffy
- seedy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- threadbare
- tired
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
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