Synonyms for frowzy


Grammar : Adj
Spell : frou-zee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfraʊ zi


Définition of frowzy

Origin :
  • also frowsy, 1680s, possibly related to dialectal frowsty (q.v.).
  • adj slovenly
Example sentences :
  • They passed a frowzy chambermaid, who stared at them with a yawn.
  • Extract from : « The Greater Inclination » by Edith Wharton
  • It was still musty, close, and frowzy, with half-awakened passengers.
  • Extract from : « Found At Blazing Star » by Bret Harte
  • By day the streets are a depression, with their frowzy doss-houses and their vapour-baths.
  • Extract from : « Nights in London » by Thomas Burke
  • "Wehling," said the waiting father, sitting up, red-eyed and frowzy.
  • Extract from : « 2 B R 0 2 B » by Kurt Vonnegut
  • This, indeed, forms no part of their character; on the contrary they are what Swift would call a frowzy people.
  • Extract from : « Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton » by John Barrow
  • But it was a mass of frowzy curls that seemed full of sunshine.
  • Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
  • Their immediate surroundings were a scrawny, frowzy landscape.
  • Extract from : « The White Terror and The Red » by Abraham Cahan
  • There was a great din of voices coming from its frowzy interior, and he wondered.
  • Extract from : « The One-Way Trail » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • By day the streets are a depression, with their frowzy doss-houses and their vapor-baths.
  • Extract from : « Modern Essays » by John Macy
  • His eyes could discover nothing that was not mean, ugly, frowzy, and unimaginative.
  • Extract from : « The Roll-Call » by Arnold Bennett

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