draggle

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

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

And why, pray, does it draggle in this fashion?

From The Birds by Aristophanes

The nice old maid near him turns away in disgust when she sees his moustaches draggle in the soup.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 by Various

The other forms, such as drabbe, dregg, and dragan, the b and v being analogous to E. draggle, drabble, draught, draft, all equally from dragan.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various

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.

From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2018

Fifteen months later, a battered, be draggled ghost ship, the Wolf again dodged through the British blockade and limped home to her base.

From Time Magazine Archive

Slowly the sky above grew lighter, and then suddenly the clouds broke, and their draggled fringes trailed away northward up the River.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

There’s a straggly line of people, adults and children, along the roadside among the draggled weeds.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Wart draggled off to the tower room, where Merlyn was busy knitting himself a woollen night-cap for the winter.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

“We had to grow,” Alexandra hissed as she propped herself against the terminal, her dark hair a curtain draggling before her as she hung her head.

From The Verge ● Feb. 13, 2019

Brooding over them is the gaunt figure of the Gravedigger Captain in his draggling coat, explaining to Adam Ember that he took the job because he wanted to be on the side of victory.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tail is thickly covered with long hairs, placed vertically, the hairs draggling on the ground.

From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by Adam White

Therapia, draggling down the stony steep, like a heap of bangles on a brown-red cheek.

From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Lewis Wallace

I opened the window; the draggling vapors were still rising, rising, the bleakness was merging in a mild warmth.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill