blowzy

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Their blowzy, well-favored faces, which ever afterward appeared to beam with good nature, to-night expressed a sense of some grave affliction heroically to be endured Their best clothes, it was obvious, had been purchased by them "ready-made," and had been designed, originally, for the sons of a less stalwart community.

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  1. adjective Having a coarsely ruddy and bloated appearance.
  2. adjective Disheveled and frowzy; unkempt: blowzy hair.

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  • Celia Imrie - ditch the wig, love - plays a nice double of a no-nonsense Sybil Thorndike and a blowzy hostess in the gay drinking club without the edge or bite
  • Tough-talking and oozing sex appeal, Ms Winters was blowzy, vulgar and often pathetically vulnerable in her early films. —  GreenCine Daily
  • Their blowzy, well-favored faces, which ever afterward appeared to beam with good nature, to-night expressed a sense of some grave affliction heroically to be endured Their best clothes, it was obvious, had been purchased by them "ready-made," and had been designed, originally, for the sons of a less stalwart community. —  Cape Cod Folks
  • Here Lenient He had not finished speaking when the door opened and Sιnateur saw before him a fat girl, with a very red color, blowzy, with pendant breasts, a big stomach and broad hips, a sort of sanguine and bestial female, the wife of the shepherd Severin, and he went into the cottage I have come to pay you a visit, as I want to make a little search," he said, and he looked about him. —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 (of 8)
  • In the other window was a blowzy-looking canary in a cage. —  Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper
 

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  1. From obsolete blowze, beggar woman, slattern.

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  1. from blowze + -y.
 

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/ˈblaʊzi/
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