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ADJECTIVE
  1. stale and unclean smelling

How To Use frowsty In A Sentence

  • Lisa Spirling's production has a frowsty, precise design by Polly Sullivan and makes a shot at an interesting question: what makes people collude with horror? Richard III; Lullaby; Hundreds & Thousands – review
  • Here we are back in the pestilent purlieus of Walham Green, and the frowsty atmosphere of the frowsy ‘medium’ and the squalid séance.
  • Sometimes I suspected that my uncle liked the frowsty old play because he acted the part of the Father in it, with one scene of tearful rejoicing that his son had come of age at the beginning, one of tearful lamentation when he thought his son dead near the middle, and one of tearful reunion when his son appeared alive and well at the end. Wicked Will
  • For, though I've no idea what this accoutred frowsty barn is worth, it pleases me to stand in silence here.
  • Explore it from the bottom of the bill and you'll encounter something different: tracts of featureless industrial estates, a world in which Wolseley police cars clatter under railway bridges in Croydon and mid-price actors occupy frowsty suburban drags. Archive 2008-03-01
  • Roger & Gallet Signature Mini Guest Soaps -- (tip: store the soap in linens closets, sock drawers, etc ... and freshen up the frowsty air!) Sur-le-champ - French Word-A-Day
  • The old Westminster House is fusty and the benches - and they are benches, not individual seats - were half filled by lounging figures in frowsty suits.
  • It is easy to wear cap, helmet frowsty bad hair, send the pore muscle that time place bears a label or helmet oppresses to cause trichomadesis easily flabbily especially.
  • `This is where we go down,' said Mac, counting the steps out of habit, and blinking in the frowsty yellowish light. HUMAN VOICES
  • Alas, the taverns reputation declined over the years and by 1775 Garrick was referring to the frowsty bowers of the Dog and Duck as peopled with half-drunk fauns and dryads breaking lamps. Bedlam
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