bedraggled
AdjectiveWordNet 3.0
Adjective (2)
- limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud“the beggar's bedraggled clothes”“scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts”Synonyms: draggled
- in deplorable condition“a street of bedraggled tenements”“a broken-down fence”“a ramshackle old pier”“a tumble-down shack”Synonyms: broken-downderelictdilapidatedramshackletatterdemaliontumble-down
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Bedraggle \Be*drag"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedraggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Bedraggling.] To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc. --Swift. [1913 Webster]