[
UK
/blˈəʊsi/
]
ADJECTIVE
- characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women
How To Use blowsy In A Sentence
- `A Pomeranian ," replied this morning's guest, a big, blowsy matron straight out of Laurel and Hardy. SURE OF YOU
- Covered by an eggshell wash, through which blue painted lines form blowsy chrysanthemum blossoms. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
- On the stage, Valerie, a pale, blowsy woman, is shouting out the answers from the last round.
- Hector thought she looked blowsy, her primness hoisted for the Missionaries squirreled away again.
- The blowsy barmaid looked me up and down as she poured my drink. DEAD BEAT
- The dame, usually a man dressed as a woman and always the funniest character in any pantomime, harks back to ancient days when the mid-winter celebration was a topsy-turvy affair with lots of blowsy humour and surprises.
- She's among the most sought-after strumpets on the scene, a brash and blowsy blonde babe whose sassy strip-club allure promises to be on the scene for some time to come.
- Tottering around with a martini glass, Charlotte Akin is delightfully blowsy as the widowed Queen Margaret -- a woman who relishes her bitterness. Washington Shakespeare Company's haunted 'Richard III' isn't haunting enough
- If you're looking for a medium-sized bush for borders, four-foot-tall Madame Isaac Pereire, a blowsy Bourbon rose with arching canes full of opulent purplish-pink flowers is deliciously fragrant and reblooms throughout the summer.
- Her voice was soft as though unsure, but I knew that once she was sure, about whatever, she would be what my mother calls blowsy. THE MANANA MAN