n. small sculpin of the coast of New England

adj. infested with grubs

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

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

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"

adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

adj. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"

adj. affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"

adj. experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent; "unhappy over her departure"; "unhappy with her raise"; "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"; "had an unhappy time at school"; "the unhappy (or sad) news"; "he looks so sad"

adj. experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13

adj. filled or abounding with clouds

adj. dirty and disorderly; "a mussy fussy bedroom"; "a child's messy eating habits"

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"

adj. not neatly combed; "wild unkempt hair"

adj. of very poor quality; flimsy

adj. characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"

adj. covered with or as if with soot; "a sooty chimney"

adj. extremely filthy from long neglect

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

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

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

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. not carrying concealed weapons

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