blowsy

Example Sentences

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Parker Posey’s blowsy Southern mama probably has the best shot from ‘The White Lotus’’ large cast of scene-stealers.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

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

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

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