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Significados de blowzy em inglês

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

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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
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The next moment a slatternly-looking girl appeared at the head of the stairs.
Wild Kitty
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The slatternly woman ran her guns out and returned the broadside with promptitude.
M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur."
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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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One is the 19-year-old sluttish Sylvie; the other is the young actor, Patrick.
The new yorker
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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
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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)
Uso de blowzy em inglês
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It was the nurse, her sleeve lifted, her blowzy face convulsed.
The Poor Little Rich Girl
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I got a blowzy blond wig, painted-on jeans and cowboy boots.
Exit strategy
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The loveliness of the woods in March is not, assuredly, of this blowzy rustic type.
Essays of Travel
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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
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Could other men have loved at all-couldany man love those blowzy, common girls of earth?
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922
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Besides, he goes for big, blowzy women.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
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The roof sat at a precarious angle, like a tilted cap on the head of a blowzy drunk.
Speaks the Nightbird
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Her file photo showed me a blowzy blonde with big Jersey hair, lots of makeup and a slim frame.
Four to score
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Alma Mater used to be a sentimental lady, barefoot in blowzy drapery, looking afar to vain wisdom and the Greeks.
The new yorker
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Critical feminine eyes might have found her a trifle blowzy; the sick-hearted Basset boy looked once,-hedared not look again.
In Exile, and Other Stories
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Now, however, Athlone, hitherto a perfectly adequate if nondescript and rather blowzy midlands town, has shyly revealed its own growth aspirations.
The Irish Times
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No blowzy barmaids for him to-day: an American bar-keep to whom he could tell his troubles and receive the proper meed of sympathy.
The Ragged Edge
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A blowzy young woman, in orange color and green, with short tinsel-covered skirts, bounded wearily on to the stage, smiling, and began to sing:
In the Wilderness
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