BEDRAGGLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bedraggled mean? 

• BEDRAGGLED (adjective)
  The adjective BEDRAGGLED has 2 senses:

1. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud

2. in deplorable condition

  Familiarity information: BEDRAGGLED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEDRAGGLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud

Synonyms:

bedraggled; draggled

Context example:

scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts

Similar:

dirty; soiled; unclean (soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In deplorable condition

Synonyms:

bedraggled; broken-down; derelict; dilapidated; ramshackle; tatterdemalion; tumble-down

Context example:

a tumble-down shack

Similar:

damaged (harmed or injured or spoiled)

 Context examples 

At last, when he was almost out of breath, she suddenly threw herself down upon a mossy bank, between two holly-bushes, and looked ruefully at her own dripping feet and bedraggled skirt.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No three tramps that one could have met in a Surrey lane could have looked more hopeless and bedraggled.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A few yards from the end the soil was all ploughed up into a patch of mud, and the branches and ferns which fringed the chasm were torn and bedraggled.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So saying, with downcast lids and a dignity which was somewhat marred by her bedraggled skirt, she swept off down the muddy track, leaving Alleyne standing staring ruefully after her.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She held her left hand in front of her, covered with a red velvet glove, and on the wrist a little brown falcon, very fluffy and bedraggled, which she smoothed and fondled as she walked.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sitting upon a rock, with his burning brow resting upon his hands, he thought of his brother, of their quarrel, of the Lady Maude in her bedraggled riding-dress, of the gray old castle, of the proud pale face in the armory, and of the last fiery words with which she had sped him on his way.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)