frowzy

Example Sentences

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Each year, right about now, I want to declare it Throw-in-the-Trowel-Week, as the aftermath of spring’s tender, joyous effusion goes beyond charmingly fuzzy to just plain frowzy and tattered.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2021

“I was frowzy and unshaven and I get in the elevator, and there’s Betsy, coming back from lunch with three handsome men,” he said.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2020

A frowzy mourning of soot and smoke attired this forlorn creation of Barnard, and it had strewed ashes on its head, and was undergoing penance and humiliation as a mere dust-hole.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 28, 2016

However, I can opine about a cappella uniforms as a style choice—they put the F in frowzy, and two F’s in naff.

From Slate • May 14, 2015

What I want is a mirror, to see if my lipstick is all right, whether the feathers are too ridiculous, too frowzy.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood