bedraggledly

adv

Etymology

From bedraggled + -ly.

  1. derived from *dʰregʰ-
  2. inherited from *draganą
  3. derived from draga
  4. inherited from dragan
  5. inherited from dragen
  6. inherited from draggen
  7. suffixed as draggle — “drag + le
  8. prefixed as bedraggle — “be + draggle
  9. suffixed as bedraggled — “bedraggle + ed
  10. suffixed as bedraggledly — “bedraggled + ly

Definitions

  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 […]

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