frowsy

Or frous·y

[frou-zee]

adjective

frowsier, frowsiest 

1. frowzy.

Other Word Forms

• frowsily adverb
• frowsiness noun

Example Sentences

But it’s that second performance, a frowsy FBI agent named Terry Husk, that really stuns you, because it’s Jude Law, going darker than ever.

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The “Siren Brooding on Her Eggs,” for instance, sits on her “frowsy nest / of neckties” singing a lullaby to “hungry egglets” who will soon hatch into something “ravenous with song.”

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Simultaneously imperious and generous, fashion-obsessed and frowsy, solitary and sociable, she styles herself as an entrepreneur looking to establish a “members-only club” on the model of Soho House.

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Her appearance is frowsy, but the cut of her tops advertises erotic vitality, and the delusion in her eyes announces her ripeness as a mark.

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She mentions 1989’s Steel Magnolias, in which she played a frowsy southern misfit behind thick, horn-rimmed specs.

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