blowsy
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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
Like torn stockings after a long night on the town, Mack’s blowsy installation feels exhausted, forlorn but happy to be here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2019
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
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
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
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