blowsy
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Steffen is also partial to the blowsy summer blooms of mophead hydrangeas, especially ‘Preziosa’, a well-mannered shrub with dramatic dark stems that’s easy to keep in scale with the rest of the garden.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
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
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
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
