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adj. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"

bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down

adj. in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"

untidy

adj. not neat and tidy; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money"

tattered, tatterdemalion

adj. worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a man in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a tatterdemalion prince"

unkempt

adj. not neatly combed; "wild unkempt hair"

unkempt

adj. not properly maintained or cared for; "an unkempt garden"; "native vistas and unkempt rambling paths"; "an ukempt appearance"

creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone

adj. worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"

grubby

adj. infested with grubs

tattered, tatterdemalion

adj. worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a man in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a tatterdemalion prince"

old

adj. of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"

battered

adj. damaged especially by hard usage; "his battered old hat"

bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny

adj. of very poor quality; flimsy

seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid

adj. morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"

undried

adj. still wet or moist

frowsy, frowzy, slovenly

adj. negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance"

adhesive

adj. tending to adhere

sticky

adj. covered with an adhesive material

Augean

adj. extremely filthy from long neglect

befouled, fouled

adj. made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot"

grubby

adj. infested with grubs

smudgy

adj. smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry Roth; "ink-smudged fingers"

bespattered, spattered, splashed

adj. spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in combination; "dingy bespattered walls"; "a grease-spattered floor"; "a besplashed coach"; "mud-splashed trouser legs"

buggy

adj. infested with bugs

dusty, dust-covered

adj. covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books"

feculent

adj. foul with waste matter

filthy, foul, nasty

adj. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"

flyblown, squalid, sordid

adj. foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"

lousy

adj. infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes"

maggoty

adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"

mucky, muddy

adj. dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"

scummy

adj. covered with scum; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond"

snotty, snot-nosed

adj. dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids"

travel-soiled, travel-stained

adj. soiled from travel; "travel-soiled clothes"

unwashed

adj. not cleaned with or as if with soap and water; "a sink full of unwashed dishes"

bent, crumpled, dented

adj. of metal e.g.; "bent nails"; "a car with a crumpled front end"; "dented fenders"

rent, blasted, ripped, torn

adj. disrupted by the pull of contrary forces; "torn between love and hate"; "torn by conflicting loyalties"; "torn by religious dissensions"

broken-backed

adj. having the spine damaged; "a broken-backed book"; "a broken-backed old horse"

burned-out, burnt-out, burned out, burnt out

adj. damaged or destroyed by or as if by fire: "barricaded the street with burnt-out cars"; "a burned-out picture tube"

burst, ruptured

adj. suddenly and violently broken open especially from internal pressure (`busted' is an informal term for `burst'); "a burst balloon"; "burst pipes"; "burst seams"; "a ruptured appendix"; "a busted balloon"

corroded

adj. eaten away as by acid or oxidation

cracked, crackled, crazed

adj. of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide

marred, defaced

adj. having the surface damaged or disfigured

weakened

adj. made weak or weaker

knocked-out(a)

adj. damaged; "the gym has some of the most knocked-out equipment since Vic Tanny"

mangled, mutilated

adj. (of compositions e.g.) damaged; "a mutilated text"