frowzy

How To Use frowzy In A Sentence

• She walked in the door, Tanya Berenger, in a maxidress and thrift-shop boots, once a well-known costume designer, now ancient and frowzy, living in a room in a sad hotel off Times Square, a place where the desk clerk sits behind a grille eating a tongue sandwich. Underworld
• You know, that you are so frowzy that I simply cannot not hand you the money.
• And truly I saw Johnny Upright, and his good wife and fair daughters, and frowzy slavey, like so many ghosts flitting eastward through the gloom, the monster city roaring at their heels. MY LODGING AND SOME OTHERS
• Soprano Emily Albrink's pert, pearl-toned Susanna may have been the liveliest, most affectionately detailed performance of the evening, but the coltish Cherubino of mezzo Brandy Lynn Hawkins, the amusingly frowzy Marcellina of mezzo Cynthia Hanna and the winkingly flamboyant turn by tenor Jesús Daniel Hernandez as Basilio all made fine impressions. In performance: WNO's young artists in "Nozze"
• On a bench nearby a frowzy loafer opened his red eyes and perceived that his moral support was due a downtrodden brother.
• So there's nothing else for it,' said the Countess, sniffing at the frowzy air coming from the entrance to the Royal Menagerie. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
• There we were, in our Sunday best, watching the frowzy drowsy fille advance to the west. The French word for plastered drunk... - French Word-A-Day
• Only the few spots held as cattle ranches under private ownership continue to look frowzy and wasted; but the condition of even these has been greatly improved under protection from the sheep scourge.
• And here to the doorstep came the "slavey," very frowzy and very perplexed, to tell me that the missus would let me come back and wait in the kitchen. JOHNNY UPRIGHT
• On the occasion of the betrothal she had arrived late, dressed in indescribable odds and ends, with an artificial red flower stuck into her frowzy wig. The Promised Land