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How to pronounce blowsy in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms blowzy, slatternly, sluttish

Examples of blowsy

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Taylor won her second Oscar for her work as a blowsy, vicious-but-tender drunk.
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Yet when you're in, the river seems blowsy and wild, miles away from civilisation.
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Yet blowsy as it is, this biography of the great American humorist has some appeal.
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A blowsy sweet country rocker, Tubin', shows skillful commercial production.
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Her ultra-romantic, blowsy, billowing white garden is most often snitched.
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Twitching and trilling with shivering fragility, she's all loose ends and blowsy disorder.
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They can be grown as tall, thin, tightly clipped, formal hedges, or laxer, blowsy hedges.
From the telegraph.co.uk
One is a blowsy, overblown and preposterous melodrama played out to a hysterical score.
From the guardian.co.uk
But I don't like the big blowsy buttery style of new world chardonnays.
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More examples
  • Characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women
  • Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face; Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern; Unrefined, countrified
  • A low acidity wine that appears too fruity and unbalanced.