floozy

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Even without this scene, the character of Scruggs is portrayed as an unprofessional one-note floozy who expresses ruthless, inhumane ambition after the bombing, and is one of the clear villains of the piece.

From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2019

Left by his wife, a vain rodeo star picks up a floozy and rides a bad Brahman bull.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2019

By the early twenties, both young women were on the stage, having overcome parental objections by sidestepping the floozy connotations of such a career.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 19, 2015

As Carmo, Ms. Loureiro makes something believable out of a filmmaker’s fantasy of the frontier floozy; the script spells out Carmo’s desperation to escape, but it’s Ms. Loureiro’s frightened eyes that make us feel it. 

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2010

Midler, on the other hand, is our great show-biz floozy, and Allen personifies the anxious urban intellect.

From Time Magazine Archive