How To Use Blowsy In A Sentence
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When I first went out to readings and met people I did get a sense that they hoped this blowsy, loudmouthed, oversexed creature was going to burst forth.
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Whether Mr. Carrollton liked "blowsy" complexions or not, he certainly admired Maggie's at that moment, and drawing her closer to his side, he said, half playfully, half earnestly: "To see you thus anxious for me, Maggie, more than atones for your waywardness when last we parted.
Maggie Miller
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A blowsy kitchen helper is full of sage advice. There's also a younger brother to tell him what to do.
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The actress, as the blowsy, chain - smoking dance teacher, is sadly underused.
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Hibiscus 'Peppermint Schnapps' - For an explosion of blowsy bloom in late summer, you can't grow anything better than hibiscus.
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On the other side, a blowsy woman in peasant garb leans back on a swing, revealing a full view up her petticoats.
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She had come, a blowsy young woman of his own age, with soft lazy eyes and a fierce tongue.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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She is Jane, blowsy but a tease.
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Participants -- great blowsy orators and the rest -- performed for the writing press before that, of course, but their being onstage live before the whole televiewing public was bound to lead to this.
Convention Circus
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As compensation we gave ourselves the treat of a delightfully decadent hydrangea, blowsy, and of that precise shade of acid pink that speaks of the back parlours occupied by ladies of negotiable affection.
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Sunlight poured through branches heavy with green, and huge, blowsy peonies nodded in the warm breeze.
Earl of Durkness
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The dingily gaudy saloon fronts, like drabs in blowsy finery, struck a too sophisticated, sinister note -- which, after all, only sums up completely the change which had taken place.
Then I'll Come Back to You
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When I first went out to readings and met people I did get a sense that they hoped this blowsy, loudmouthed, oversexed creature was going to burst forth.
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However, in place of the suggestive delicacy of traditional ink painting, his bees and butterflies are realized with the blowsy directness of American Pop art.
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But his smoothie solicitor is having an affair with his blowsy, sexy wife Carol and the whole situation is ready to explode.
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Here, between invisible walls, the fog hung thick and warm and sticky, crowding up close, with a kind of blowsy intimacy that whispered the atmosphere of the place.
The Secret House
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The fact that he recast her as a housemaid or a blowsy country lass is indicative of his desire to distance and protect himself from painful memories.
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Speculation has centred on what combination of tranquillisers or diet pills is coursing through the blowsy Texan's bloodstream as she rolls around on her bed, rubs herself up against walls and employees while cooing inanities.
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He meekly obeys when he is told by this blowsy female partner to take a small child on a visit to his mother in a distant town.
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Her voice was soft as though unsure, but I knew that once she was sure, about whatever, she would be what my mother calls blowsy.
THE MANANA MAN
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Covered by an eggshell wash, through which blue painted lines form blowsy chrysanthemum blossoms.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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On the stage, Valerie, a pale, blowsy woman, is shouting out the answers from the last round.
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Hector thought she looked blowsy, her primness hoisted for the Missionaries squirreled away again.
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The blowsy barmaid looked me up and down as she poured my drink.
DEAD BEAT
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The dame, usually a man dressed as a woman and always the funniest character in any pantomime, harks back to ancient days when the mid-winter celebration was a topsy-turvy affair with lots of blowsy humour and surprises.
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She's among the most sought-after strumpets on the scene, a brash and blowsy blonde babe whose sassy strip-club allure promises to be on the scene for some time to come.
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Tottering around with a martini glass, Charlotte Akin is delightfully blowsy as the widowed Queen Margaret -- a woman who relishes her bitterness.
Washington Shakespeare Company's haunted 'Richard III' isn't haunting enough
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If you're looking for a medium-sized bush for borders, four-foot-tall Madame Isaac Pereire, a blowsy Bourbon rose with arching canes full of opulent purplish-pink flowers is deliciously fragrant and reblooms throughout the summer.
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`A Pomeranian ," replied this morning's guest, a big, blowsy matron straight out of Laurel and Hardy.
SURE OF YOU
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On the dining room table was a vase and in it, a handful of blowsy but still gorgeous roses.
MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
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As the night wears on, the bitter contretemps between the squabbling pair gets progressively uglier-especially when blowsy, gin-soaked Martha mentions the couple's "son.
John Farr: Elizabeth Taylor: Star
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The staging in Act I uses a trio of boxes for separate scenes - the kitchen, a ballet studio for the blowsy stepsisters' dancing lesson, a frame for the Seasons divertissement.
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Ged Dale, Eccles, LancsOne is a blowsy, overblown and preposterous melodrama played out to a hysterical score.
Notes and queries: What's the difference between operas and musicals? Is getting there quicker cheaper? The house where Handel and Hendrix lived
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Elsewhere, textures were thick and unvaried, the vibrato was numbing, the tuning blowsy.
Times, Sunday Times
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And that woman, that blowsy, strident woman who insists on telling everybody what she thinks of them.
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She is blowsy, slightly needy, and struggling to keep in check the precocious sexuality of her only daughter, aptly named Lolita.
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The actress is as irritating as she is perfect in the role of feckless and blowsy Kathy who loses her house after a mix up with local taxes.
