On his way he met an old woman with a shawl around her, a bedraggled dress and wet feet.
Susannah trudged downstairs again and dried her bedraggled skirts at the fire—an empty house, a dreary wailing wind, and gathering twilight for her sole companions.
The lieutenant mopped his face on a bedraggled handkerchief.
Therefore they laughed and joked over their bedraggled condition.
This untidy, comfortless, bedraggled room was now hers, her home!
bedraggled| American Dictionary
bedraggled
adjective
us/bɪˈdræɡ·əld/
(of apersonor a person’sappearance)messy,dirty, and oftenwet
His plumes have been considerablybedraggledsince that day.
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They are clinging with their supporters, like huddled andbedraggledlimpets, to every rock, exposed to every wind and gale that blows.
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It may bebedraggledbut nevertheless they should raise it.
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They are getting a bitbedraggledby now, which is perhaps symptomatic of the campaign itself.
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Of course, fowl moult and look pretty awful andbedraggledin the moulting season.
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They went out from the debate forlorn, defeated andbedraggled.
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It was the usual wet morning, and some of the animals were damp andbedraggled.
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In the poem sometime the curse is put on, in comes a very wretched, verybedraggledand very miserable jackdaw, on whom the curse has fallen.
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Rawcliffe school is so old andbedraggledthat it needs complete replacement.
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Although his driver's license was up-to-date, the inspection sticker had expired, and thebedraggledsinger found himself in the back of the police cruiser.
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The crouching,bedraggled, half-human half-animal form - downcast head obscured by matted hair - is one of his best known images.
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In the bowels of the castle, he finds abedraggledbut cultured and intelligent man in a cell.
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Bedraggledand very hungry, we limped over the last hill into town.
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She appeared to be about fifty years of age, handsomebut muchbedraggled.
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Hungry, fatigued, andbedraggledfrom the rain, they seemed to confirm that the siege was a simple demand for food.
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