Bedraggled

If you look up the word bedraggled in the dictionary, there will be an image of my 4 rain soaked scrawny birds, standing on one foot, so close together they look attached. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Mary Hunter Austin (1901)

The Irish News was quick to replace the loss of Susan McKay with the equally impressive columnist, Fionnuala O'Connor, author of 'first article, she examines the possible repercussions of the British Conservative Party's link-up with the' bedraggled 'link of Unionism, Reg Empey's Ulster Unionist Party, under the bizarre UCUNF label. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I know there are some seniors who are kind of bedraggled and can't picture being vigorous enough to be Prez at 72, but there are an awful lot of seniors who resent the age jokes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"bedraggled" to make the story more clever and dramatic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I loved my look so much I have to admit I slept it and had a very bedraggled look the next day. ❋ BritChick Paris (2011)

But the insane exploit had a cost: The surviving forces were bedraggled and ill-fed. ❋ Philip Delves Broughton (2012)

But at least Europe will have more luck selling real assets to their friends in Beijing than they did their bedraggled bonds. ❋ Tom Orlik (2011)

They were huddling close together, bedraggled and nervous. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All across America's urban centers, the bedraggled hoi polloi have gathered around the comforting aura of reclaimed wood. ❋ Steven Nereo (2011)

It is the cat that was once beautiful and is now like Lear, is bedraggled though majestic. ❋ James Scarborough (2011)

NEW YORK -- Dominique Strauss-Kahn walked out of a Manhattan courthouse Tuesday free from criminal charges, sweeping with a smile past a crush of cameras and speeding away from a place where he'd been brought, bedraggled and handcuffed, more than three months ago. ❋ Chad Bray (2011)

your shoes is hella bedraggled, yo, lookin' like you got [fleeced] at your [grandmama's] [yard sale]. ❋ Brown Wolf (2008)

Even Mr.Muscle would decline 'Wow. She's a [bedraggled] mess this mornin. look at that drool! Wipe [ya face] ya scruffy [old tart]!' says the homeless man. ❋ SeaLife (2011)

Jesus you [bedraggled shirker] do you have the lip [herpies] again.. please do some [work around] here and have some respect for you appearence you are looking like an unkept yeti. ❋ Battered Worker (2017)