bedraggled

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  1. adjective Wet; limp.
  2. adjective Soiled by or as if by having been dragged through mud.
  3. adjective Being in a condition of deterioration; dilapidated: a street of bedraggled tenements.

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  • Amy saw they were all there, looking wet and bedraggled--Dorothy, Leo, and the tin man, covered with dirt and twigs, but safe for the moment. —  FSF, July 2006
  • He'd do two laps around the reservoir and return home looking bedraggled, his grayish hair hanging in strands around his face. —  The Coffin Dancer
  • She was sadly bedraggled, her dress in tatters, and bruises on her body, but her spirit remained spunky. —  Ogre Ogre
  • Crombie hunched, bedraggled, his feathers losing their luster; Chester wrapped his arms about his human torso as if to fend the liquid off; and the Magician- The Good Magician was wrapped in a big, bright, once-fluffy beach towel. —  The Source of Magic
  • The two women were mud-spattered, bedraggled, and sodden from the rain. —  009 - The Czar of Fear
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disheveled ·  tattered ·  untidy ·  haggard ·  unkempt ·  crumple ·  travel-stained ·  sodden ·  grubby ·  forlorn ·  unwashed ·  shapeless
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