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词汇 blowsy
释义 blowsy
adjective
(alsoblowzy)uk /ˈblaʊ.zi/ us /ˈblaʊ.zi/
A blowsy woman is rather fat and looks untidy, often with badly fitting clothes.(女人)肥胖且邋遢的
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not attractive to look at
back end
be no oil paintingidiom
be not much to look atidiom
bleakly
bleakness
gracelessly
have a face like the back end of a busidiom
hideous
hideousness
homeliness
putridly
reptilian
scrappily
scrappy
stolid
unpretty
unshapely
unsightly
vulgarity
vulgarly
Examples from literature

After racking his imagination, it occurred to him to bribe the blowsy waiting-maid with gold. 
By this time Mary had dried her tears, and when they reached the station at Warren, she removed her veil, disclosing to view a face, which instead of being "rough and blowsy" was smooth and fair almost as marble. 
Edward Henry bought an aster from a fine bold, red-cheeked, blowsy, dirty wench with a baby in her arms, and left some change for the baby. 
She is blowsy and fat, has far too much color, and carries too much flesh in spite of the rough way she uses herself. 
These pert and blowsy schoolgirls, with hideous voices, and arrogant curls, or crimped lion-manes of aggressive hair! 

Examples of blowsy


blowsy
In her early film work she specialized in blowsy blondes and secretaries, but her dramatic range began to emerge by the late 1960s.
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Its natural sweetness means that in hot climates it becomes blowsy, with not enough acidity to balance the huge amounts of sugar.
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