blowsy
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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
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
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
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
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