variants or frowzy

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of frowsy Lenker, in plaid, rubs her eyes; James Krivchenia leans forward, sparky and alert; Meek, outdoors in the Topanga sunshine, wears cycling glasses and a frowzy hat. Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 4 Sep. 2025 Before the current renovation of the franchised hotels, the rooms looked as if they were stuck in a fussy, frowsy 1980s floral rut. BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for frowsy
Adjective
  • Chelsea occasionally bypassed the press with Gusto, a right-back playing in midfield, and captain Reece James interchanging positions, but were not helped by sloppy moments.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Or that fixing problems like their sloppy first-quarter defense and stagnant run game — at least for one week — gives reason to believe their floor and ceiling will rise higher as the season progresses.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Yet a life so big and complicated is always ripe for further exploration.
    Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Try mashing a quarter of a ripe avocado and spreading it on your bread slices.
    Sarah Garone, Health, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Her brunette hair was styled with a shaggy aesthetic with fringe to frame her face.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But as on Letterboxd, Runquist’s YouTube videos are conversational and shaggy.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Politically, the affluence manifested in Long Island establishing itself as a bastion of the Republican Party, showing strong support for Hoover in his doomed Presidential campaign against Roosevelt.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Since Xi Jinping assumed power in 2012, Chinese stories have increasingly included nods to Chinese nationalist (not just communist) soldiers fighting bravely, thus placing a strong, victorious, and morally righteous China at the forefront of the postwar global order.
    Big Think, Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • To Washington, a beard made a man look unkempt and slovenly, masking the higher emotions that civility required.
    Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The other near certainty in Lead Actor should be Gary Oldman, who anchors Slow Horses with a slovenly charisma that is, against all odds, deeply watchable.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 24 May 2025
Adjective
  • On the other end, Ja’Marr Chase is coming off an absolutely filthy touchdown grab last Sunday.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • For collaborating with British officers while on parole, he was transferred to solitary confinement in a filthy cell.
    Stacy Schiff, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Fanning, for whom this film is certainly a showcase, plays Polly, who’s revealed to be a physical and emotional mess in the opening scenes, in which she’s shown anxiously puttering around her large, unkempt house, chain-smoking and trying on dresses for an upcoming important interview.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
  • As the friend mentioned the dirty, unkempt sidewalks, trash in the street and the overgrown trees, Bidegain decided something needed to be done.
    Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Football is a way of bringing people together irrespective of their faith, colour or religion and this disgusting decision does the exact opposite.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • These are more disgusting smears peddled by the media and billboard law firms.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Frowsy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frowsy. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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