blowsy

• “Here, between invisible walls, the fog hung thick and warm and sticky, crowding up close, with a kind of blowsy intimacy that whispered the atmosphere of the place.”

  The Secret House

• “Whether Mr. Carrollton liked "blowsy" complexions or not, he certainly admired Maggie's at that moment, and drawing her closer to his side, he said, half playfully, half earnestly: "To see you thus anxious for me, Maggie, more than atones for your waywardness when last we parted.”

  Maggie Miller

• “Tottering around with a martini glass, Charlotte Akin is delightfully blowsy as the widowed Queen Margaret -- a woman who relishes her bitterness.”

  The Washington Post: Washington Shakespeare Company's haunted 'Richard III' isn't haunting enough

• “Sunlight poured through branches heavy with green, and huge, blowsy peonies nodded in the warm breeze.”

  Simon & Schuster: Earl of Durkness

• “As the night wears on, the bitter contretemps between the squabbling pair gets progressively uglier-especially when blowsy, gin-soaked Martha mentions the couple's "son.”

  The Huffington Post: John Farr: Elizabeth Taylor: Star

• “Ged Dale, Eccles, LancsOne is a blowsy, overblown and preposterous melodrama played out to a hysterical score.”

  The Guardian: Notes and queries: What's the difference between operas and musicals? Is getting there quicker cheaper? The house where Handel and Hendrix lived

• “Hibiscus 'Peppermint Schnapps' - For an explosion of blowsy bloom in late summer, you can't grow anything better than hibiscus.”

  My Plant Safari Photos (at Sugar Creek) « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog

• “In 1999, he set up his own production company, Baby Cow (an oblique homage to Paul Calf and his blowsy sister, Pauline) with business partner Henry Normal.”

  The Guardian: Steve Coogan: Two parts Partridge, one part genius

• “Don't You Remember" executes this exasperating manoeuvre particularly acutely, between verse (gripping) and chorus (blowsy).”

  The Guardian: Adele – review

• “He was the meticulous bourgeois writer in his starched collar and bow tie; she the blowsy chatterbox, a former barmaid, 27 years his junior.”

  The Guardian: House of Exile by Evelyn Juers – review

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