frowsy

How To Use frowsy In A Sentence

• Pop-eyed and slightly frowsy, she turns the long-suffering chorine into a study in soft-hearted ditzhood. Times, Sunday Times
• Her sailor-soul would not allow her to leave the lapstreak in a frowsy condition. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper
• They were not much to look at-tanned, tattered, inhabited, maybe, but under their frowsy gaberdines was a complete mail of money belts, and they were just as good as gold.
• Consider a few of the most viral stories in the US media the past several weeks: Britain's Got Talent frowsy-haired singing phenom Susan Boyle, the toned arms and zeitgeist fashion sense of Michelle Obama, and Bo, the bouncy First Puppy. Susan Moeller: Media Literacy 101: Of Susan Boyle, Michelle's Arms and Bo the Dog
• Two rather frowsy saloon girls, adorned with feathers and too much paint, were leaning against the bar, half-asleep.
• He had seen it lying in the window of a frowsy little junk-shop in a slummy quarter of the town (just what quarter he did not now remember) and had been stricken immediately by an overwhelming desire to possess it.
• In 1905, Elbert Hubbard wrote in the Leavenworth Times of Kansas that ‘The girls at a Fred Harvey place never look dowdy, frowsy, tired, slipshod or overworked.’
• They were not much to look at-tanned, tattered, inhabited, maybe, but under their frowsy gaberdines was a complete mail of money belts, and they were just as good as gold.
• Scrubby coat and trousers, dirty shirt, scarf, and cap, socks more like anklets for holes, and a pair of split boots; bedraggled hat, frowsy jacket, blouse and skirt, squashy boots, and perhaps a patchy "pelerine" or mangy "boa" -- such is accepted as the natural costume for the heirs of all the ages. Essays in Rebellion
• Mr.R. is not alarmed, but delighted, when she slips into his quarters on a frowsy Friday morning, eyes bright, ribbons of yarn in her wavy hair, plaid micro mini, no bra, nipples pushing the taut polyester. The The Three Sisters