bedraggled
adjective
be·drag·gled
bi-ˈdra-gəld 
bē-
1
: soiled and stained by or as if by trailing in mud
2
: left wet and limp by or as if by rain
3
: dilapidated
bedraggled buildings
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She was bedraggled and exhausted.
the cat looked rather funny, all bedraggled and fit to be tied after her bath
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Alan Blinder, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2022
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Alan Blinder, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2022
Bradley Cooper’s character in this psychological thriller is a bedraggled writer whose career and personal life are languishing until a friend slips him a new psychotropic medication called NZT.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2011
Hawkins is aged up, and appears bedraggled, hard-pressed for some good luck.
—Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
Only a bedraggled group of compliant survivors remained in the White House, and their numbers diminished by the day.
—Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books, 6 Jan. 2021
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bedraggled
adjective
be·drag·gled
bi-ˈdrag-əld
: limp, soggy, or dirty from or as if from rain or mud
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