bedraggled
/bɪˈdræɡəld/
adjective
- Wet, dirty, and messy in appearance, usually from being out in bad weather or from rough treatment.
- After the long hike through the muddy trail, the hikers looked bedraggled and exhausted.
- Her bedraggled hair and torn coat showed that she had been caught in a storm.
- The bedraggled puppy shivered on the doorstep after being caught in the rain.
- In a state of disrepair or neglect; shabby or run-down.
- The bedraggled garden was overgrown with weeds and had broken fences.
- They lived in a bedraggled old house with peeling paint and sagging porch steps.
- The once-proud flag now hung bedraggled and torn from the pole.
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