wretchedly-clad

Updated: May 21, 2025

The barman was regarding her with a sort of semi-interest, and Mr. Neither would have admitted an active interest in so pale and thin and wretchedly-clad a little mortal. Her hair hung loose, and had no covering; it was hair of no particular colour, and seemed to have been for a long time utterly untended; the wind, on her run hither, had tossed it into much disorder.

George Gissing - The Nether World