blowsy

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Another one of Haskins’ quilts, “Peacocks in Purple,” worked in tonal shades of purple and blue with green accents, hung in the garden framed by blowsy hydrangeas blooms in a similar color palette.

From Seattle Times

Today’s blowsy sweet peas descend from a wildling discovered by a Sicilian monk in the late 17th century.

From Seattle Times

The garden’s blowsy beauty is enhanced by plants left to go to seed, like the ferny fluffs of asparagus and fennel, and the tumbled masses of red- and gold-tinged orach.

From Seattle Times

On Lucy’s introduction to Lily, a voluble, oversharing type who in the 1950s might have been characterized as “blowsy,” the two seem unlikely friends.

From New York Times

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