bedraggled means scrufy so..... The bedraggled old man was caught shop lifting
She presented a bedraggled appearance. The begraggled vagrant stood on the corner.
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Bedraggled, neglected, shoddy, squalid, desolate...
Yes, it is. It means shabby, untidy, or unkempt. (The connotation is dirty, ragged, or bedraggled.)
The word is bedraggled. It means dirty from being in rain and mud.
Do you mean bedraggled? If so, it means the way a girl would look if she stood out in the rain in her best prom dress for a half an hour. How a guy would look if he was obliged to help push pigs onto a truck while wearing his best suit. It means dirty and disheveled.
After having to paddle his way through the slimy bog he was in a state of bedraggle.
Un-answerable question - except to say that it is possible to wet almost anything if given the right circumstances. Almost all birds with bath in water and all become at least somewhat bedraggled when they have done so.
Americanas and every other bird has to go through a yearly moult. They change from a bedraggled worn out bird to a real beauty with fresh, young feathers. It's sort of like when your dog or cat sheds. It's just time to change old for new.
well groomed, Synonyms:badly dressed, badly worn, bedraggled,dilapidated, dingy, dirty, dishevelled, frayed,frazzled, full of holes, grubby, grungy, in tatters,messy, moth-eaten, scruffy, shabby, sloppy,tacky*, tattered, threadbare, torn, unclean,uncombed, ungroomed, unkempt, worse for wear