The word bedraggled has appeared in 27 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on July 18 in “Australian Man and His Dog Rescued After Nearly 3 Months at Sea” by Michael Levenson:
While searching for tuna last week, a helicopter pilot spotted something bobbing in the vast blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean, more than 1,200 miles from land.
It was a small white catamaran, badly damaged. Aboard it was a man with a shaggy, sun-bleached beard and bedraggled hair. He appeared somewhat dazed.
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