adjective

• Dirty and disheveled.

  ‘we got there, tired and bedraggled’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The poor garden is looking bedraggled: dry and dishevelled.’
  • ‘He had dragged himself from the bed in a tangle of blankets, his hair tousled and bedraggled like a farmer's hay stack that had been left out in the rain.’
  • ‘Jamie grunted, combing down his long, bedraggled, messy hair with his hand.’
  • ‘It was a woman, dirty, bedraggled and unkempt, but a woman nonetheless.’
  • ‘That, in addition to the bedraggled, disheveled and altogether weary face, created for Will a none-too-familiar picture.’
  • ‘The hurricane's eye also passed close to Port Arthur, Texas, another petrochemical town where bedraggled refugees spent a wet and noisy night trying to sleep on a hotel lobby carpet - until a gust blew in the windows.’
  • ‘I can see my reflection in the mirror, but I do not want to see the bedraggled, red-streaked hair and the angry, sad expression.’
  • ‘Her face loomed over his - blotchy with tears, eyes swollen, hair bedraggled.’
  • ‘All day long, rescuers in boats and helicopters plucked bedraggled flood refugees from rooftops and attics.’
  • ‘I wondered in alarm, seeing all the available dry spaces being crowded out by the bedraggled refugees.’
  • ‘Her long hair was in a bedraggled mess and her normally fair skin was flushed red.’
  • ‘Milly was sitting on the bed, her hair bedraggled and looked up in surprise when I ran in.’
  • ‘McLellan may have been wet, bedraggled and muddied but she could still raise a big smile at the prospect of making that first underground sighting of a wombat, cosy and safe, far down in its den.’
  • ‘After scrambling up the steep banks and ploughing through the undergrowth with my boat in tow, I emerged bedraggled and muddy.’
  • ‘Her red hair looked messy, very bedraggled and her clothing…’
  • ‘His hair was bedraggled; some of it fell in the dark waves as intended, but the rest of it was divided between twisting away in haphazard directions and matting itself to his head.’
  • ‘Her pink dress was bedraggled, her hair sopping wet.’
  • ‘After about half an hour of inability to go back to sleep, I ran a hairbrush through my bedraggled hair and stumbled down four flights of stairs to get to the dining hall.’
  • ‘The door came flying open showing a depressed creature, bedraggled, with hair tangled and sticking out in odd directions.’
  • ‘His hair was chaotically bedraggled, obviously soaked as well as sporadically covered with soapy foam.’
  • ‘So after a week of that, we could look pretty darn emaciated and bedraggled.’

  Synonyms

  dishevelled, disordered, untidy, unkempt, tousled, disarranged, messy, in a mess

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