bedraggled

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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: {bedraggled}, {draggled}]
    2: in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements";
       "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-
       down shack" [syn: {bedraggled}, {broken-down}, {derelict},
       {dilapidated}, {ramshackle}, {tatterdemalion}, {tumble-down}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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

    

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