What is "bedraggled"

Usage examples of "bedraggled".

A few more jokes: a bedraggled caryatid, an Egyptian tomb, a Greek temple that had been changed by some Circean wand into a butcher shop.

Livorno turned out not to be the ship from Livorno at all but merely a bedraggled pink just in from Dunkerque with horses on board, most of which appeared to be dead, I decided I would spend one of the coins on a glass or two of wine instead.

Tull, as bedraggled as Enin, looked, Mare said later, as if he had been slapped silly by a dead cod.

But as I squeezed my way through, following the slight figure of the Silver Flame, who had shed her bedraggled cloak to reveal a formfitting white sheath, I thought they at least served one purpose: They were too narrow for our hairy pursuers.

Stringy, bedraggled, raddled with the paint of pokeberry juice, and smelling of moonshine whisky, she haunted the alleys or poked in the dump heaps between sunset and dusk.

Both wore sleeved white tunics that were dirty and bedraggled, and leather leggings and soft buskins of leather: riding togs, and not peasantish.

So she lived with the sharp smell of frying onions and beefburgers, the nights being lit as bright as day, the packets of chips chucked over her gate, the cans of Special Brew lefton her front windowsill, the local supermarkets bumping up their prices on Saturdays, the Scots boys for whom her bedraggled front garden held eerie allure as a urinal, the spontaneous outbursts of singing, the great endless flow of generally good-natured people.

Sam noticed that her scalp blossoms, normally a creamy white, were now limp and bedraggled.

The second wall-window on the other side of the room revealed a grim sight: Dozens of bedraggled Chatoobs many in makeshift beds-staring at the cadets through the window.

She jerked impatiently at a coinlike pendant hanging on a bedraggled ribbon around her throat.

They did not complain much, however, although they got dirtier and greasier and more bedraggled each day.

A bedraggled wreck in a dingy apartment, trying to wheedle invitations and support from boring acquaintances and lesser Families she would have disdained only a few months previously.

Behind them on the steps I caught sight of a group of domestics, old Anatole standing slightly in advance of his fellows, and wondering, no doubt, whether this were, indeed, the bedraggled Lesperon of a little while ago - for if I had thought of pomp in the display of my lacqueys, no less had I considered it in the decking of my own person.

Robbie since the news broke, and he strolled through the overdecorated corridors of his own office to a remarkable silence, deepened both by his bedraggled appearance and by the presence of Evon, who seemed to vacillate between friend and foe on an hourly basis.

Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chou, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Philippines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies.