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Bedraggled vs Sullied - What's the difference?

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Bedraggled is a related term of sullied.


As adjectives the difference between bedraggled and sullied

is that bedraggled is wet and limp; unkempt while sullied is defiled or tainted, soiled or stained.

As verbs the difference between bedraggled and sullied

is that bedraggled is (bedraggle) while sullied is (sully).

bedraggled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • wet and limp; unkempt
  • decaying, decrepit or dilapidated
  • * 1919 , (Saki), The Toys of Peace and Other Papers
    • 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 * bedraggledness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bedraggle)

    • sullied

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • defiled or tainted, soiled or stained.

    • Antonyms

    * unsullied

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sully)