Bedraggled meaning

Adjective: bedraggled

Pronunciation: (bi’dra-guld)

Bedraggled meaning:

• In dilapidated or deplorable condition

Synonyms: broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion

• Limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud

Synonym: draggled

Quotations: Minnie Driver – I’d prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It’s such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don’t and they’re like, they’re trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she’s looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.

Robbie Cranch – Don’t start out with bedraggled plants if you don’t have to.

Patricia Moyes – Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tattered banners upright. October was at the gates and autumn was in full retreat.

Vivien Leigh – On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene ‘Take a good look, my dear. It’s a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night.’

Sherwood Smith – Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellent situation more bearable.

Sample sentences:

1. The beggar wore bedraggled clothes and was suffering a lot.
2. We have visited a town of bedraggled tenements.
3. They were as bedraggled as any of the barbaric clans you have ever seen.
4. She might have lost the battle, but that didn’t mean she had to beat a bedraggled retreat.
5. The dog looked very funny, all bedraggled after his bath.
6. The bedraggled public could do nothing but salute the public representative. They cannot join the protest too.
7. We opened the box and saw a pale, bedraggled five year old kid with dirty clothes and torn shoes.
8. Mud and rain always bedraggle small children who go playing in the mud.
9. We cannot run this bedraggled business anymore. We need to find a better alternative to survive.
10. These unpaved streets will definitely bedraggle your lengthy skirt. You should better take a taxi.