blowsy

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

Sellars imported the blowsy Egyptian singer Dina El Wedidi and her fusion band, as he did the alluring Carnatic Indian singer Aruna Sairam with her inspired traditional Indian musicians.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 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