She was an old-fashioned liveship, a blowsy old cog. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
She managed to look blowsy and sharp at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
A plump middleaged woman with blowsy hair bent over him. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
This is incredibly comforting on a blowsy day like today. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend Cookbook Challenge # 25 -] Reference
It is a big, blowsy and flagrant accord that takes no prisoners. From Wordnik.com. [White Floral Queen Part Seven: Robert Piguet Fracas] Reference
"She's attractive in a blowsy sort of way.," she said offhandedly. From Wordnik.com. [A Kiss Remembered]
Dorothy was sporting a platinum-blond wig in a blowsy bedroom style. From Wordnik.com. [I is for Innocent]
The blossom is extravagant without being blowsy, and a thing of beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Groundwork: Okra time] Reference
Oddly, Althea's blowsy beauty and hopeful expression left him cold today. From Wordnik.com. [Wyoming Territory]
The rest of the plot was a jumble of headstones, stakes and blowsy roses. From Wordnik.com. [December 6]
A horseman is riding up a hill, and giving money to a blowsy beggar-wench. From Wordnik.com. [The Paris Sketch Book] Reference
The hot, blowsy country, remote from danger, had a lonely, forgotten feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Burmese Days] Reference
I eagerly await experiments with blowsy rose stuffed cabbage and the filo opus. From Wordnik.com. [Cabbage Roles] Reference
My favorite was the blowsy ladyfish with her gold scales and bridal veil of fins. From Wordnik.com. [Under Water] Reference
Before him stood a blowsy but not altogether unprepossessing woman of middle years. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference
Holman's blowsy performance of the song, with lyrics by Howard Dietz, stopped the show. From Wordnik.com. [Another Who's Been Unjustly Forgotten] Reference
Sevigny, with her slow, lazy sexuality, makes this blowsy small-town girl oddly valiant. From Wordnik.com. [Walk Like A Man, Talk Like A Man] Reference
After racking his imagination, it occurred to him to bribe the blowsy waiting-maid with gold. From Wordnik.com. [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket] Reference
She was younger than middle-aged (but not at all youthful), full-fleshed, handsome and blowsy. From Wordnik.com. [The Dancing Druids]
He obtained the room number from the blowsy, rumpled tub of a woman who sat at the front desk. From Wordnik.com. [The Otherworld]
Ginny put out the rest of the food and Edwina did door duty, becoming more blowsy by the minute. From Wordnik.com. [GINNY BATES ON HALLOWEEN] Reference
If the gentleman was a classic marble carving, his companion was a blowsy, painted carnival statue. From Wordnik.com. [The Mummy Case]
Too much American Cabernet, even expensive Cabernet, has become a parody of itself, blowsy and hard to drink. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of the wines] Reference
This unknown man strode across the lobby so confidently -- every sturdy line of him suggesting blowsy strength. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
We get epistles-in-pistils like "Consolation for a Hangover," in which red valerian signified "drunk and blowsy.". From Wordnik.com. [All I Want For Christmas...] Reference
Castro was smelly, and Arafat was a blowsy old queen — “a massive trunk, huge hips … red and fleshy lips.”. From Wordnik.com. [She Said What She Thought] Reference
Though a campaign manifesto of sorts, it is superior to that genre's usual blowsy pastiche of ghostwritten speeches. From Wordnik.com. [THE CHOICE FOR AMERICA IS CLEAR / IT'S OBAMA !] Reference
And that is why I find Mr. Michael's approach so suspect, for what he does is substitute blowsy rhetoric for thought. From Wordnik.com. [Automation] Reference
One wine might be big and rich, perhaps even blowsy, while another is high in acidity with a decidedly minerally edge. From Wordnik.com. [Ch] Reference
There was something blowsy and uncertain and hesitating about the women in particular, which made one at once notice them. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
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