blowsy

Example Sentences

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Parker Posey’s blowsy Southern mama probably has the best shot from ‘The White Lotus’’ large cast of scene-stealers.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

Steffen is also partial to the blowsy summer blooms of mophead hydrangeas, especially ‘Preziosa’, a well-mannered shrub with dramatic dark stems that’s easy to keep in scale with the rest of the garden.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024

Together they came up with an equally humiliating formula, pairing Lisa’s blowsy old actor persona with this violent new format to create The Comeback, perhaps the best comedy about television in the 21st century.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2019

At other times Exley's smoky eloquence turns blowsy and verbose.

From Slate • Aug. 10, 2015

She was a blowsy woman with dyed yellow hair, and from time to time we saw her out in the front yard, chopping wood or filling a scuttle from the coal pile.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls