bedraggled
1. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud (Freq. 2) - the beggar's bedraggled clothes - scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts • Syn: draggled • Similar to: dirty, soiled, unclean 2. in deplorable condition - a street of bedraggled tenements - a broken-down fence - a ramshackle old pier - a tumble-down shack • Syn: broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down • Similar to: damaged • Derivationally related forms: tatterdemalion (for: tatterdemalion)
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