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Another word for bedraggled

ADJ

  1. Showing signs of wear and tear or neglect

    Idiom:

    past cure (or hope)

    gone to pot (or seed)

    all the worse for wear

    See also:

    better

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Another word for bedraggled

MOD

  1. See also:

    dirty

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Sentence Examples

  • l There is no need to express in words the total euphoria, not only I felt, but everyone involved experienced when a bedraggled waif stumbled on a pack of boy scouts searching for her grave.

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

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

  • 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.

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