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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bedraggled
adj 1: limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's
bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or
draggled skirts" [syn: draggled]
2: in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements";
"a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a
tumble-down shack" [syn: broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle,
tatterdemalion, tumble-down, unsound]
WordNet (r) 2.0
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "bedraggled":
beat-up, befouled, besmirched, blowzy, careless, chintzy, decrepit,
defiled, dilapidated, dirtied, dirty, down-at-heel, drabbled,
drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, drenched, faded, fouled,
frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grubby, grungy, in rags, informal, loose,
lumpen, messy, muddy, mussy, negligent, poky, ragged, raggedy,
ruinous, run-down, scraggly, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack,
slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, smirched,
smudged, soaked, soiled, sordid, spotted, squalid, stained,
sullied, tacky, tainted, tarnished, tattered, threadbare, unkempt,
unneat, unsightly, untidy, wet
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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