blowsy

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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

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

She was a blowsy woman with dyed yellow hair, and from time to time we saw her out in the front yard, chopping wood or filling a scuttle from the coal pile.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls