blowsy

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

From Slate • Aug. 10, 2015

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