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Definition of Bedraggled
1. Adjective. Limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud. "Scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"
2. Adjective. In deplorable condition. "A tumble-down shack"
Similar to: Damaged
Derivative terms: Tatterdemalion
Definition of Bedraggled
1. Adjective. wet and limp; unkempt ¹
2. Adjective. decaying, decrepit or dilapidated ¹
3. Verb. (past of bedraggle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bedraggled
1. bedraggle [v] - See also: bedraggle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedraggled
Literary usage of Bedraggled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
"Each morning she was nauseated, chilly, bedraggled, and certain that she would
never again be attractive; each twilight she was afraid. ..."
2. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1873)
"With bedraggled wings and withered throat, Tells me of the songs it heard in
heaven— Only as a little dead lark, lying Trying to teach me, here and there, ..."
3. In Moorish Captivity: An Account of the 'Tourmaline' Expedition to Sus, 1897-98 by Henry M. Grey (1899)
"An execution—The etiquette of eating—Sidi Hashem and his ' magnificent barb'—How
a Susi sleeps—A bedraggled camp—Our commissariat department—Grinding ..."
4. A Dictionary of Similes by Frank Jenners Wilstach (1916)
"bedraggled. bedraggled, like the flounce of a vulgar rich woman's dress that
trails on the sidewalk. — OW HOLMES. Beg. Beg like a dog at a fair.— ANON. ..."
5. The Century Handbook of Writing by Garland Greever, Easley Stephen Jones (1922)
"Right: A bedraggled old rooster. [Old rooster has almost the force of a compound
word. bedraggled modifies the general idea old rooster.] Note. ..."
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