draggletailed

/ ˈdræɡəlˌteɪld /

adjective

1. archaic.
   (esp of a woman) bedraggled; besmirched

Example Sentences

There's no doubt here about the underlying callousness of Higgins' project of making what he calls "a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe."

From Los Angeles Times

To speak of the foul condition into which such draggletailed dresses must soon get is positively sickening.

From Project Gutenberg

There are days When the whole world’s hoddendoon and draggletailed, Drooked through and through; and blury, gurly days When the wind blows snell: but it’s something to be stirring, And not shut up between four glowering walls, Like blind white faces; and you never ken What traveller your wayside fire will draw Out of the night, to tell outlandish tales, Or crack a jest, or start quarrel with you, Till the words bite hot as ginger on the tongue.

From Project Gutenberg

I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe.

From Project Gutenberg

Then drunken father and draggletailed mother had faded from the scene, and the boy had been left to a life of odd jobs and fleeting patrons.

From Project Gutenberg