bedraggled
bid ra guhld
- v make wet and dirty, as from rain
- s limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud
the beggar's bedraggled clothes - s in deplorable condition
a street of bedraggled tenements
- An idealistic, charismatic and compassionate politician comes out of nowhere to be elected Governor of a somewhat bedraggled Southern state.
- His arrival in Philadelphia is one of the most famous scenes in autobiographical literature: the bedraggled 17-year-old runaway, cheeky yet with a pretense of humility, straggling .
- When he came out, he looked bedraggled, said the official: He looked like a homeless man at the bus station.