draggled

IPA: drˈægʌɫd

adjective

  • Soiled and wet as by dragging in the mud.
  • Having a limp, miserable, dilapidated appearance; bedraggled.
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Examples of "draggled" in Sentences

  • His jaws were apart, and through them the tongue protruded, draggled and limp.
  • They were mere skeletons, draped loosely in draggled hides, with blazing eyes and slavered fangs.
  • A very miserable-looking man in draggled duck, after nearly swamping the boat in heavy seas, passed us the painter and climbed out.
  • A very miserable-looking man in draggled ducks, after nearly swamping the boat in the heavy seas, passed us the painter and climbed out.
  • He cut a short pole at the water's edge and drew from one of his pockets a bit of line and a draggled fly that had once been a royal coachman.
  • His face and neck were hidden beneath a black beard, intershot with grey, which would have been stiff and bushy had it not been limp and draggled and dripping with water.
  • "Surely I shall never miss it," I said, and I had in mind the dark gray suit with the pockets draggled from the freightage of many books — books that had spoiled more than one day's fishing sport.
  • "Surely I shall never miss it," I said, and I had in mind the dark gray suit with the pockets draggled from the freightage of many books -- books that had spoiled more than one day's fishing sport.

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