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bedraggled::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
a street of bedraggled tenements.
bedraggled::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | draggled |
the beggar's bedraggled clothes.
Examples of bedraggled
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Or treat them with compassion, like a bedraggled emotion puppy lost in the rain.
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I summoned the muses in vain, for even the most bedraggled muse had abandoned me.
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Rows of bedraggled white lady grow in the oak copse below the iron age remains.
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Even bedraggled wards of the state, such as Citigroup, reported decent profits.
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He's sitting on a bedraggled horse and has a lamp and lace and teapot on his head.
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These bedraggled Iraqi soldiers are unwilling to die for a leader they loathe.
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Red Army troops pull a bedraggled Adolf Hitler out of his bunker rabbit hole.
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There is a bedraggled familiarity and truth in the moral landscape limned by Corson.
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Still clad in his increasingly bedraggled wolf suit, he incites riotous fun.
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- Limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"
- In deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
- Dilapidation is a term meaning in general a falling into decay, but more particularly used in the plural in English law for # the waste committed by the incumbent of an ecclesiastical livingn# the disrepair for which a tenant is usually liable when he has agreed to give up his premises in good ...
- Wet and limp; unkempt; decaying, decrepit or dilapidated
- Wet or soiled and limp.
