How To Use Frowzy In A Sentence
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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
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You know, that you are so frowzy that I simply cannot not hand you the money.
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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
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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"
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On a bench nearby a frowzy loafer opened his red eyes and perceived that his moral support was due a downtrodden brother.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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It was visiting time when Wemmick took me in, and a potman was going his rounds with beer; and the prisoners, behind bars in yards, were buying beer, and talking to friends; and a frowzy, ugly, disorderly, depressing scene it was.
Great Expectations
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frowzy white hair
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This knife-wielding psychopath isn't jaunty, but hunched and frowzy.
A suffocatingly dark 'Knight'
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The treaty usually took place in the dishevelled drawing-room, after a round of the widely parted chambers, where frowzy beds, covered with frowzy white counterpanes, stood on frowzy carpets or yet frowzier mattings, and dusty windows peered into purblind courts.
London Films
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The lone exception is basketball, where the uniforms just hang down all unkempt and frowzy.
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The old lady with the shawl and trowel adores her frowzy garden and in the vanished days of the empire-the pulse of the explorer quickened at the sight of a desert floor.
Bringing It All Back Home
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On top was a frowzy cushion with what looked like an iron-on picture of a dragon.
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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
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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"
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Again I gave a civil evasion to the girl's trivial question, and as I did so her companion, looking over her frowzy pompadour, stared at me with insolent familiarity.
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There is a harmony between the breakfast and the frowzy Gaelic cook we saw "sozzling" about in the kitchen.
Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing
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filled the door with her frowzy bulk
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During the course of his tale, an old lady enters the café and sits next to the frowzy storyteller.
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The rising moon, like Celia, appears to be frowzy, dirty, red and wrinkled.
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And don't get me started on the frowzy little strips of bunting that many business houses feel so fully demonstrates good corporate citizenship, or the contrived costuming of employees in the same pursuit.