blowsy

Example Sentences

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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

Nine years later, Melville assigned himself a far weightier role, as a journalist, in “Two Men in Manhattan,” his billet-doux to New York, complete with a suitably blowsy score.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 24, 2017

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

At other times Exley's smoky eloquence turns blowsy and verbose.

From Slate • Aug. 10, 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