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bedraggled

/bih-drag-uhld/US // bɪˈdræg əld //UK // (bɪˈdræɡəld) //

蓬头垢面,蓬头垢面的,衣衫褴褛,衣衫褴褛的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : limp and soiled, as with rain or dirt.

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Examples

  • The Brazilian defense, touted as impenetrable in pre-tournament hype, proved to be bedraggled, and porous.

  • At the end on the beach, the film shows the bedraggled crew, exhausted and relieved.

  • Franklin and William, covered in sweat, their clothes spangled with countless leaves, made their bedraggled way back to the road.

  • There were whiffs of the painfully “hipster” sensibility in which everything is a bit bedraggled and self-consciously messy.

  • We were sweaty and bedraggled, shirts untucked, ties yanked loose.

  • They presented an uncouth spectacle bedraggled as they were with grime and dirty water.

  • Mrs. John C. was bedraggled from loss of sleep, and defeat sat upon her shining brow.

  • He is dressed neither in a rainbow, nor bedraggled with blood.

  • Professor Zepplin made a joke of his own bedraggled condition, and the boys gave slight heed to theirs.

  • The bedraggled cat lapped milk, protected from the resentful jealousy of the station's regular feline attach by the one-eyed cook.