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

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