Definition of "draggle-tailed" [drag•gle-tailed]

• Slatternly, untidy, unkempt. (adjective)

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• "Add to this a dirty, draggle-tailed chintz; long, matted hair, wandering into her eyes, and over her lean shoulders, which were once so snowy, and you have the picture of drunkenness and Mrs. Simon Gambouge."
• "People go by, so drenched and draggle-tailed that I have often wondered how they found the heart to undress."
• "And then there is the feeling that that kind of semi-poverty, which has in itself something of the pleasantness of independence, when it is borne by a man alone, entails the miseries of a draggle-tailed and querulous existence when it is imposed on a woman who has in her own home enjoyed the comforts of affluence."