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frowzy
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synonyms: blowsy ???
► definition
Definition:1. dressed as a slob; scruffy2. dirty; untidy; musty
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Uses:
see if my lipstick is all right, whether the feathers are too ridiculous, too frowzy. In this light I must look lurid.
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the book was much older than that. He had seen it lying in the window of a frowzy little junk-shop in a slummy quarter of the town
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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He hadn't on anything but a shirt, and he was very frowzy-headed.
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Rumfoord appeared in the archway. He, too, looked frowzy and palsied.
Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)
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A frowzy mourning of soot and smoke attired this forlorn creation of Barnard, and it had strewn ashes on its head,
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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— a very slattern of an old unpainted farmhouse, with sinking roof and snow up to the frowsy windows.
Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here
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A huge woman, gray-haired, frowsy,
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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The woman and the girl looked at each other in the tawdry, frowsy, lamp-lit room.
Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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