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UK
/fɹˈaʊzi/
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ADJECTIVE
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negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt
slovenly appearance
frowzy white hair
filled the door with her frowzy bulk
How To Use frowzy In A Sentence
- The treaty usually took place in the dishevelled drawing-room, after a round of the widely parted chambers, where frowzy beds, covered with frowzy white counterpanes, stood on frowzy carpets or yet frowzier mattings, and dusty windows peered into purblind courts. London Films
- And don't get me started on the frowzy little strips of bunting that many business houses feel so fully demonstrates good corporate citizenship, or the contrived costuming of employees in the same pursuit.
- The rising moon, like Celia, appears to be frowzy, dirty, red and wrinkled.
- During the course of his tale, an old lady enters the café and sits next to the frowzy storyteller.
- filled the door with her frowzy bulk
- There is a harmony between the breakfast and the frowzy Gaelic cook we saw "sozzling" about in the kitchen. Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing
- Again I gave a civil evasion to the girl's trivial question, and as I did so her companion, looking over her frowzy pompadour, stared at me with insolent familiarity.
- Soprano Emily Albrink's pert, pearl-toned Susanna may have been the liveliest, most affectionately detailed performance of the evening, but the coltish Cherubino of mezzo Brandy Lynn Hawkins, the amusingly frowzy Marcellina of mezzo Cynthia Hanna and the winkingly flamboyant turn by tenor Jesús Daniel Hernandez as Basilio all made fine impressions. In performance: WNO's young artists in "Nozze"
- So there's nothing else for it,' said the Countess, sniffing at the frowzy air coming from the entrance to the Royal Menagerie. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
- On top was a frowzy cushion with what looked like an iron-on picture of a dragon.