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Meanings of blowsy in anglès

Characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women.

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Examples for "slatternly"
Examples for "slatternly"
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She was cheerful as the snow began to conceal the slatternly yards.
Main Street
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A knock at the door brought out a slatternly looking colored woman.
The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and S...
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A rigid system, faithfully administered, would be better than a slatternly compromise.
From a College Window
4
The next moment a slatternly-looking girl appeared at the head of the stairs.
Wild Kitty
5
The slatternly woman ran her guns out and returned the broadside with promptitude.
M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur."
1
One is the 19-year-old sluttish Sylvie; the other is the young actor, Patrick.
The new yorker
2
So Noorna continued slapping Kadza, and cried, 'Is she not sluttish?
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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I will not have him think us poor or sluttish.
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1
4
I would not have him think us poor or sluttish.'
The Purcell Papers — Volume 2
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He sat down in the sluttish armchair and undid the straps of the brief-case.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
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It was the nurse, her sleeve lifted, her blowzy face convulsed.
The Poor Little Rich Girl
2
I got a blowzy blond wig, painted-on jeans and cowboy boots.
Exit strategy
3
The loveliness of the woods in March is not, assuredly, of this blowzy rustic type.
Essays of Travel
4
Gwendolyn lifted terrified eyes for a second look at the brick-colored hair, the blowzy countenance.
The Poor Little Rich Girl
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Meanwhile it gets us a blowzy character, by shouldering roughly among the children of civilization.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 4
Usage of blowsy in anglès
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Her hair came partly undone and fell down over her blowsy face.
The Inferno
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She was a dark, blowsy girl with a slight squint, about twenty-five.
The God That Failed
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Are you sure I don't look rather blowsy, and like a milkmaid?
Herb of Grace
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She was not a blowsy whore, of course-she was an orphan.
The gathering
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The blowsy lady was grinning; her front teeth had already been knocked out.
Mister Slaughter
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A red-faced, blowsy young woman with a large bust and a pinched-in waist.
The Making of a Soul
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Repulsive-looking men copulated with blowsy blondes, who strangely enough had kept their bikinis on.
Conquest of the Useless
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But horticultural whimsy says that only the smaller and less blowsy varieties are permissible.
The Irish Times
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But nature is a treacherous blowsy jade, who respects nobody.
The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes)
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Hortie looked blowsy, tired, and overwhelmed, and wasn't aging well.
A good woman
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She was an attractive woman-ina slightly blowsy sort of way-andhe enjoyed her company.
Corduroy mansions
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They were pretty enough in a blowsy sort of way and were most probably locals.
More Than Honor
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After racking his imagination, it occurred to him to bribe the blowsy waiting-maid with gold.
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
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The gardens were bursting with Gallicas, great blowsy things whose fragrance was like a drug.
Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
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There was a blowsy cheeked bar-maid, Mother Conarty's daughter.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
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A knife-pleated white crepe blouse was teamed with a silk ball-skirt handpainted with blowsy roses.
The Guardian
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