How To Use Frowsy In A Sentence
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Max Bedacht was not the kind of frowsy, self-assertive Communist most Congressmen were accustomed to encountering.
On being called a bigot and/or racist
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After a second's wait -- snortingly impatient on Mr. Wilder's part; he was being pressed close by the none too clean citizens of Valedolmo -- the door was opened a very small crack by a frowsy jailoress.
Jerry
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Scrubby coat and trousers, dirty shirt, scarf, and cap, socks more like anklets for holes, and a pair of split boots; bedraggled hat, frowsy jacket, blouse and skirt, squashy boots, and perhaps a patchy "pelerine" or mangy "boa" -- such is accepted as the natural costume for the heirs of all the ages.
Essays in Rebellion
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Here we are back in the pestilent purlieus of Walham Green, and the frowsty atmosphere of the frowsy ‘medium’ and the squalid séance.
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After this outburst the man slept gently on, while the little girl still held the parasol aloft and looked down with a great wonder at the frowsy, unkempt creature, trying to reconcile it with the little part of life that she knew.
THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY
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Valedolmo – the door was opened a very small crack by a frowsy jailoress.
Jerry Junior
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I don't know if dog and cat diabetes are handled similarly but one of my cats was losing weight, his coat was frowsy and he drank a lot of water and urinated a lot at once.
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And the way the woman referred to Ermina implied there was no love lost between this frowsy neighbor in her faded tracksuit and Ermina Blaylock.
Fatal Error
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All these were blotted out by a grotesque and terrible nightmare brood — frowsy, shuffling creatures from the pavements of Whitechapel, gin-bloated hags of the stews, and all the vast hell's following of harpies, vile-mouthed and filthy, that under the guise of monstrous female form prey upon sailors, the scrapings of the ports, the scum and slime of the human pit.
Chapter 1
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It's wonderful, the amount of litter they manage to accumulate in these frowsy little shops where the whole stock is worth about fifty quid.
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One was a frowsy fat fellow with the features of a slug—a slug that wore a derby and a cheap suit two sizes too small.
What Would Philip Marlowe Do
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A Tribune reporter insisted that ‘all the red-headed, cross-eyed and frowsy servant girls’ in the city turned out for the occasion.
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A submissive orchestra dictated to by a spectacled man with frowsy hair and a dress suit, industriously followed the bobs of his head and the waves of his baton.
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Pop-eyed and slightly frowsy, she turns the long-suffering chorine into a study in soft-hearted ditzhood.
Times, Sunday Times
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Diaz is frowsy, whiny and has no chemistry with any other character.
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Max Bedacht was not the kind of frowsy, self-assertive Communist most Congressmen were accustomed to encountering.
On being called a bigot and/or racist
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Although the Blairs never came close, not that they had the opportunity, to committing the upholstery crimes of a Saddam Hussein, their frowsy London interiors, furiously draped, chandeliered, patterned and cluttered, seemed to hint at something stranger than decorative idiosyncrasy.
What's in worse taste – Cameron's photographer or Blair's house?
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A frowsy whore with black straw sailor hat askew came glazily in the day along the quay towards Mr Bloom.
Ulysses
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Mr.R. is not alarmed, but delighted, when she slips into his quarters on a frowsy Friday morning, eyes bright, ribbons of yarn in her wavy hair, plaid micro mini, no bra, nipples pushing the taut polyester.
The The Three Sisters
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Scrubby coat and trousers, dirty shirt, scarf, and cap, socks more like anklets for holes, and a pair of split boots; bedraggled hat, frowsy jacket, blouse and skirt, squashy boots, and perhaps a patchy "pelerine" or mangy "boa" -- such is accepted as the natural costume for the heirs of all the ages.
Essays in Rebellion
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They were not much to look at-tanned, tattered, inhabited, maybe, but under their frowsy gaberdines was a complete mail of money belts, and they were just as good as gold.
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In 1905, Elbert Hubbard wrote in the Leavenworth Times of Kansas that ‘The girls at a Fred Harvey place never look dowdy, frowsy, tired, slipshod or overworked.’
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He had seen it lying in the window of a frowsy little junk-shop in a slummy quarter of the town (just what quarter he did not now remember) and had been stricken immediately by an overwhelming desire to possess it.
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Two rather frowsy saloon girls, adorned with feathers and too much paint, were leaning against the bar, half-asleep.
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Consider a few of the most viral stories in the US media the past several weeks: Britain's Got Talent frowsy-haired singing phenom Susan Boyle, the toned arms and zeitgeist fashion sense of Michelle Obama, and Bo, the bouncy First Puppy.
Susan Moeller: Media Literacy 101: Of Susan Boyle, Michelle's Arms and Bo the Dog
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They were not much to look at-tanned, tattered, inhabited, maybe, but under their frowsy gaberdines was a complete mail of money belts, and they were just as good as gold.
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Her sailor-soul would not allow her to leave the lapstreak in a frowsy condition.
Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper
