blowzy

Synonyms for blowzy

adj wrinkled, unkempt in appearance

adjective. flushed, ruddy

c.1770, from obsolete blouze (1570s), "wench, beggar's trull," perhaps originally a cant term, + -y (2).

It was the nurse, her sleeve lifted, her blowzy face convulsed.

The May sun was striding, an incongruous, provincial virgin, through a litter of blowzy streets.

One face (the front) was blowzy and freckled, with a small pug nose and a quarrelsome mouth.

Gwendolyn lifted terrified eyes for a second look at the brick-colored hair, the blowzy countenance.

Meanwhile it gets us a blowzy character, by shouldering roughly among the children of civilization.

The loveliness of the woods in March is not, assuredly, of this blowzy rustic type.

I have heard you speak of him since you came home, but supposing he was some blowzy artist, I never cared to ask about him.

Shelton was repelled by her proprietary tone, by her blowzy face, and by the scent of patchouli.