blowsy
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Another one of Haskins’ quilts, “Peacocks in Purple,” worked in tonal shades of purple and blue with green accents, hung in the garden framed by blowsy hydrangeas blooms in a similar color palette.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2022
Her Chris has a big, blowsy personality: caustic, dramatic, and self-sabotaging.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2016
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
One of the funny, but doom-laden, elements in “A Christmas Garland” is the mockery of Galsworthy’s and Bennett’s loquaciousness, which carried within it the seeds of the idea that anything big and long is blowsy.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 3, 2015
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
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
