Bedraggled vs Sordid - What's the difference?
bedraggled | sordid | Related terms |
wet and limp; unkempt
decaying, decrepit or dilapidated
* 1919 , (Saki), The Toys of Peace and Other Papers
(bedraggle)
Dirty or squalid.
Morally degrading.
* 1912 ,
Grasping.
As adjectives the difference between bedraggled and sordid
is that bedraggled is wet and limp; unkempt while sordid is dirty or squalid.As a verb bedraggled
is past tense of bedraggle.bedraggled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.
Derived terms
* bedraggledly * bedragglednessVerb
(head)sordid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky.They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid world.
