bedraggled

bedraggled
be·drag·gled (bĭ-drăgʹəld) adj.
1.
a. Wet; limp.
b. Soiled by or as if by having been dragged through mud.
2. Being in a condition of deterioration; dilapidated:

a street of bedraggled tenements.

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