bedraggle

But no blast can chill its wings, no mire bedraggle, or rude touch fray.

From Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame by James Lane Allen

But Mathews had no Judge Lawlack to bedraggle justice for his sake.

From The Squatter and the Don by C. Loyal

Instead of cultivating your graces you bedraggle them with labor!

From For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store by Lurana W. Sheldon

Here in town, she probably preferred to tread the extent of the two drawing-rooms, and measure out the miles by spaces of forty feet, rather than bedraggle her skirts over the sloppy pavements.

From The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Arriving in theaters this fall after multiple splashy film festival premieres, it announces the 38-year-old actress, best known for playing a bedraggled spy in the Apple TV+ series Slow Horses, as a potential Oscar contender.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

But on what criteria, using what metrics, should the bedraggled managers—who have never had to do this before—make the trade-offs now?

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2025

But bedraggled residents who spoke to the BBC near Lacey last week said they felt the workers' absence during the strike.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025

Her over-romanticized vision of life across the pond, fueled by love stories like “Sense and Sensibility” set in pastoral England, starts out more bedraggled than charmed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025

A bedraggled youngish mouse held up a timid paw.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques