blowsy
adjective
having a coarse, ruddy complexion.
blowsed,
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a variation of
blowsy.
Example Sentences
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Of course not; it was only Ellen, for now I saw a hand lifted, to push back the wind blowsed curls from her forehead.
From Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Willie Walker Caldwell
Something in the sight of her sleek, smooth tidiness, joined to the consciousness of my own miserable, blowsed disorder, stings me more even than the rain-drops are doing.
From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton
Her hair, all blowsed from the pillow, was tied in a stiff little pigtail, standing out from her slender, childish neck.
From The Trespasser by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
