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draggle-tailed

/drag-uhl-teyld/US // ˈdræg əlˌteɪld //UK // (ˈdræɡəlˌteɪld) //

曳尾的,曳尾的人,曳尾,曳尾式

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : untidy; bedraggled; slovenly.

Examples

  • Israel high-tailed it to a campground in western Massachusetts, where he began to grow a beard.

  • Is bushy-tailed new GOP vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan the right choice for Mitt Romney?

  • One British reporter who tailed him through the day said he was “somewhat robotic—not particularly presidential.”

  • To that end, you must be as bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as possible.

  • Was it some one who had watched the swift, sure-footed spring of a bushy-tailed squirrel from branch to branch?

  • They were not the nervous, string-halt jacks of the prairies, but the smaller black-tailed variety.

  • The fat-rumped and the broad-tailed sheep are much more extensively diffused than any other.

  • Edwards has given a figure and description of this animal by the denomination of the pig-tailed ape.

  • With reverence I shall worship thee who art long-tailed like a horse, Agni, king of worship.