blowsy
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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
Today’s blowsy sweet peas descend from a wildling discovered by a Sicilian monk in the late 17th century.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2022
Nine years later, Melville assigned himself a far weightier role, as a journalist, in “Two Men in Manhattan,” his billet-doux to New York, complete with a suitably blowsy score.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 24, 2017
At other times Exley's smoky eloquence turns blowsy and verbose.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2015
But after a while of marriage, she turned into a stout blowsy woman, known in Brooklyn as “the saloon type.”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
If you want to tame their wild look, surround blowsier plants with the structure of a close-clipped edge or a low hedge.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
For a long time jazz, the blowsiest of the arts, has needed to have its hair combed and its socks pulled up.
From Time Magazine Archive
