Bedraggled

A bedraggled union flag flies over houses in Hartlepool on the third anniversary of Brexit.

Also, people tend to neglect their dead-heading duties and the flower often looks bedraggled and tired.

Harry Martindale said they looked like perfectly normal human beings, only bedraggled and tired.

Even then, the cat seemed bedraggled, and so, in truth, did Father Christmas, who looked as if he’d had a liquid lunch and dived into a fist fight.

And a slightly less bedraggled one.

Bruce already cut a bedraggled figure on the touchline as the rain lashed down at the King Power Stadium.

In the past week, they have started emerging at about 7pm each night: bedraggled Syrian Kurds fleeing the Turkish bombardment of their villages and towns to the safety of Iraq.

Later, a firefighter carried a wet and bedraggled gray cat from the building and spectators gave him a blanket to wrap the feline in. Neighbors said the cat belonged to the woman who had collapsed earlier.

Then, not that many years ago, having been dozing on a train from London to Plymouth, I woke up at Chippenham, I think, to see a bizarre, bedraggled army staggering slowly along the platform.

And as the victim, Charlie Plummer who doesn’t have much to do other than look increasingly bedraggled as he is shifted from one prison to another, leaves an impression.

Rated as one of the best players in the world in the 2013 Lions series his Australian rugby contract was torn up after he tried to board a plane in a bedraggled state.

When Drake finally reached its deck, his men were alarmed at his bedraggled appearance.