blowsy
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9.3
- adjective
- /ˈblaʊzi/
- Offensive
:
desaliñada
- Two blowsy whores size her up territorially as she finds an open stool at the bar and settles in with serene indifference.
- blowsy woman
- big and blowsy
- blowsy flowers
Examples
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The roses on the faded wallpaper might have been cabbages, the leaves wrinkled and blowsy.
Fiction book (1998) -
The blowsy woman wore a wrinkled dress and had wild, unkempt hair.
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The door frame, looking like a blowsy dance hall queen in his explosion of white and black feathers.
Fiction book (1993) -
She made a very good, blowsy sort of woman, just right for Raymond.
Fiction book (1995) -
My wife is a great, blowsy blonde with breasts that make the vice president for finance and resources hiccup at parties.
Fiction book (1998) -
Not much of a turnout, with scarcely anyone of Catherine's own age apart from herself and the Nugents, and a rather blowsy young woman in red who was probably Vanessa, the other receptionist.
Fiction book (1995) -
I proceeded to dinner with the professor and his wife, who was interesting—a kind of blowsy Pre-Raphaelite character, her hair in an old-fashioned knob wisping out in strands.
Fiction book (2002) -
She walked into the room looking blowsy, with her clothes slightly disheveled and her makeup smudged.
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The restaurant had a blowsy decor that felt casual and unrefined, with mismatched furniture and faded colors.
Synonyms
23
3.8
Messy and untidy in clothes or appearance
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5.1
Not neat in appearance, often with messy hair or clothes
A woman who looks untidy and a little rough
Antonyms
How Untidy
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word blowsy probably comes from an older word blowsed, which described someone red-faced or rough from drink or the wind, so blowsy came to mean 'untidy' or 'coarse'.