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raddled

British  
/ ˈrædəld /

adjective

  1. (esp of a person) unkempt or run-down in appearance

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of raddled

C17: from raddle ²


Example Sentences

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I used to walk past the raddled marquee of the shuttered Linda Lea Japanese Films theater on Main Street near skid row.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2021

But it’s not on our own account that we, the raddled middle-aged, deride Moix and his bogus body fascism.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2019

Wildly conducting the nuanced cacophony, he resembles an even more raddled Nick Nolte flanked by the inmates of a Midwest death row.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2013

She appreciates things more, but she has returned to her default self-criticism, and is more than ever raddled with self-doubt.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2011

Guenever had lost her raddled look, and sat accepting the clothes which were recommended for her, without fuss.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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