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

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

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

adj. showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"

adj. used of hair: "wild unkempt hair"

adj. lacking neatness or order; "the old man's scraggly beard"; "a scraggly little path to the door"

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"

adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

adj. showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"

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

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

adj. of very poor quality; flimsy

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"

adj. (of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch; "tacky varnish"

adj. characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women

adj. tending to adhere

adj. having the sticky properties of an adhesive

adj. extremely filthy from long neglect

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

adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

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"

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"

adj. infested with bugs

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

adj. foul with waste matter; of or relating to feces

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

adj. eaten away as by acid or oxidation

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

adj. having the surface damaged or disfigured

adj. damaged inanimate objects or their value

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

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

adj. having the paint loose and peeling away; "a dilapidated house with peeling paint"; "peeling row houses"

adj. having surface damage

adj. damaged by storm

adj. free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits; "children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals"

adj. habitually clean; "cleanly in their persons and habitations"