draggle
Example Sentences
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Much of the uproar, as the U.S. duly noted and compensated for, was due to the fact that the politicians caught in the bloody draggle of Suez needed a scapegoat.
From Time Magazine Archive
As most of the actors draggle through their paces, it is plain that Novac and friends could easily outwit the lot of them.
From Time Magazine Archive
And why, pray, does it draggle this fashion?
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes
The most splendidly angelic inspirations will not suffice to compensate the poet for feet that draggle in the mud, or stumble higgledy-piggledy among stony words, which his toes should have kissed into jewels.
From Impressions and Comments by Ellis, Havelock
And why, pray, does it draggle in this fashion?
From The Birds by Aristophanes
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
