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

There’s really only one woman in the movie, and that’s Donna McKechnie, playing a blowsy rose.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2018

Her Chris has a big, blowsy personality: caustic, dramatic, and self-sabotaging.

From Slate • Aug. 16, 2016

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