frowzy

Historical Examples

• They passed a frowzy chambermaid, who stared at them with a yawn.

  The Greater Inclination

  Edith Wharton

• It was still musty, close, and frowzy, with half-awakened passengers.

  Found At Blazing Star

  Bret Harte

• By day the streets are a depression, with their frowzy doss-houses and their vapour-baths.

  Nights in London

  Thomas Burke

• "Wehling," said the waiting father, sitting up, red-eyed and frowzy.

  2 B R 0 2 B

  Kurt Vonnegut

• This, indeed, forms no part of their character; on the contrary they are what Swift would call a frowzy people.

  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

  John Barrow