Usage examples (8)

• There was no dust, and nature looked spruce and trig, without a taint of the frowziness which is observable in the foliage a month later.
• The subjects are chosen for me, and it does seem as if the publisher enjoyed making me eulogize frowziness.
• There was, indeed, always a jagged wound in the entry wall made by some envious trunk; but there was nothing of the frowziness, the shabbiness of many of those houses in...
• The entry was oftenest dim and narrow, with a mat sunk into the floor at the threshold and worn to the quick by the cleansing of numberless feet; and an indescribable...