Besmeared vs Bedraggled - What's the difference?
besmeared | bedraggled | Related terms |
(besmear)
To smear over; smear all over; sully.
:* {{quote-book
, author = (William Stukeley)
, title =
, year = 1734
, page = 57
, passage = ...carters and coachmen, who make in imitation thereof a composition of grease and tar, with which they besmear the inside of the naves of wheels and the extremitys of the axis upon which they move.
}}
:* {{quote-news
, date=2012-01-26
, first=Mike Allen
, last=Jim Vandehei
, authorlink=
, coauthor=
, title=Drudge, conservative media criticize Newt Gingrich
, newspaper=Politico
, city=
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wet and limp; unkempt
decaying, decrepit or dilapidated
* 1919 , (Saki), The Toys of Peace and Other Papers
(bedraggle)
Besmeared is a related term of bedraggled.
As verbs the difference between besmeared and bedraggled
is that besmeared is (besmear) while bedraggled is (bedraggle).As an adjective bedraggled is
wet and limp; unkempt.besmeared
English
Verb
(head)besmear
English
Verb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=His public record is already besmeared with tawdry divorces,… }}
Anagrams
*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.