A street of bedraggled tenements. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The beggar's bedraggled clothes. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Every time I saw her getting homelier and kind of bedraggled like, I said to myself, well, I've saved Peter from that at any rate. From Wordnik.com. [The Lovely Lady] Reference
"bedraggled" to make the story more clever and dramatic. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
She came in here this morning, wet and bedraggled. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
He must take this bedraggled, disheveled remnant of. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
What mean these blood-stains and bedraggled clothes?. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
We all became limp and bedraggled, in soul as well as body. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
Finally, bedraggled kitty stepped out gingerly to take a sip. From Wordnik.com. [Samurai Kitteh] Reference
Nan saw his wet face, with the bedraggled hair clinging about it. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
The financials act bedraggled with no loan volume growth in sight. From Wordnik.com. [Bernanke's Fed Full Of Blind Mice] Reference
Finally, after six days, Walker and 85 bedraggled others surrendered. From Wordnik.com. [A Long, Strange Trip To The Taliban] Reference
He found nothing but bedraggled Virginia creeper and more dead leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Servant Problem] Reference
The lady stared at the bedraggled party in amazed silence for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue] Reference
He returned home late that afternoon, bruised and bedraggled with sweat. From Wordnik.com. [Ninja Turtles, Eat Our Dust] Reference
Mrs. Bobbsey was very sorry to see Flossie so wet and bedraggled, and said. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at School] Reference
I got a bedraggled subdued mutt named Casey from the shelter two months ago. From Wordnik.com. [The Start of Something Good] Reference
"" We have to take this to survive, '' said Zenun Hoxha, a bedraggled 45-year-old. From Wordnik.com. [A Case Of Alarming Anarchy] Reference
They passed on, still jabbering; two bedraggled women and a baby were no novelty to them. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
She, poor, bedraggled, complaining suppliant, a beggar where she should have been a queen!. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
Every man, almost, has a beard, and you could not imagine the dirty, bedraggled crowd we are. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
One camp set up for Iraqi deserters in Kurdish territory holds several hundred bedraggled fighters. From Wordnik.com. [An Iraqi Grunt's Escape] Reference
Sitting bedraggled in his old buggy, Ida Mary distributed the mail to the patrons who had gathered. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
They looked very much bedraggled, but they were laughing and did not seem to mind what had happened. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove] Reference
EDELSTEIN: In Catherine Keener, Holofcener has the perfect alter-ego: warm and appealingly bedraggled. From Wordnik.com. ['Please Give': A Fine-Tuned Study Of Envy And Guilt] Reference
"Who ever would have thought there were so many of those Rain Elves," said a bedraggled-looking flower. From Wordnik.com. [Sandman's Goodnight Stories] Reference
Indeed, it would be hard to imagine a more uninteresting, bedraggled, down-at-the-heel place than this. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route] Reference
Whether they're fresh-faced 6-year-olds or bedraggled mothers with kids in tow, they all want to be Shania. From Wordnik.com. [The Malling Of Shania] Reference
I don't recall her very well, except that her writing was poor and that she looked unhappy and a little bedraggled. From Wordnik.com. [Benazir and Me] Reference
Its bedraggled, uneven skirt reached down to her ankles, while the sleeves of the coat came far short of her wrists. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts' Good Turn] Reference
The chauffeur is even lauded for his patriotic sentiments, and one good-hearted, bedraggled creature actually murmurs. From Wordnik.com. [With Those Who Wait] Reference
Then I saw him skulking like a cupid, in the shrubbery, his skirts bedraggled and soiled, his face downcast with guilt. From Wordnik.com. [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference
And she is ready to ensnare the bedraggled, alcoholic Menville, wretchedly married to Madeline, into her murderous plot. From Wordnik.com. [Revenge Of The Living Dead] Reference
These flowers ran into ragged weeds and bedraggled-looking grasses on the other side, and from these grinned a death's head. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
With his huge tapered head and pocked face partially hidden by a short beard, I always think of him as a bedraggled satyr. From Wordnik.com. [Key West with Poo and Company] Reference
More bashfully than before, the girl extended the injured member in its now mud-bedraggled bandage for the newcomer's inspection. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
The girls were already racing eagerly toward it, and a few minutes later were welcoming the poor bedraggled survivors back to safety. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue] Reference
Black, uncombed hair in tangled disorder, blood-stains on face, hands, and bedraggled clothing, brandishing a new long-bladed dagger, stands. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
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