adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A rather bedraggled crowd waited outside in the pouring rain.
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The children walked along the path, looking miserable and bedraggled after the storm.
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Trucks carried hundreds of bedraggled refugees across the border.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For the first few weeks their existence was bedraggled and formless.
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He was bedraggled and exhausted, but it was he who was speaking.
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He was an alarmingly tall and thin individual, whose long, bedraggled dark hair fell nearly to his waist.
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I turned up my coat collar to meet my hat brim and hunched defensively, like a bedraggled bird.
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Now he noticed how bedraggled some of the men looked up close.
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One by one the men made the shore, weary and bedraggled , limbs aching from the strain of fighting the storm.
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The formalities were completed sitting on a makeshift seat of boxes surrounded by a rather bedraggled crowd of schoolboys.
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The heel of her shoe had kicked out the hem and the skirt was bedraggled .