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bedraggledly

bedraggledly adverb: in a bedraggled manner.

Adverb

bedraggledly (comparative more bedraggledly, superlative most bedraggledly)

  1. In a bedraggled manner.
    • And there goes the other happy poet bedraggledly back to New York which struck him all of a sheepish never-sleeping heap at first […]2006, Chambers Book of Speeches, Chambers

Forms of bedraggledly

comparativemore bedraggledly
superlativemost bedraggledly

Origin of bedraggledly

From bedraggled + -ly.

Questions about bedraggledly

What does bedraggledly mean?
Bedraggledly means in a bedraggled manner.
What part of speech is bedraggledly?
Bedraggledly is an adverb.

Words near bedraggledly in the dictionary

  1. bedrabbled
  2. bedrabbles
  3. bedrabbling
  4. bedraggle
  5. bedraggled
  6. bedraggledly
  7. bedraggledness
  8. bedragglement
  9. bedragglements
  10. bedraggles
  11. bedraggling

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