Definition of "frowsy" [frowsy]

• Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance. (adjective)

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• "Max Bedacht was not the kind of frowsy, self-assertive Communist most Congressmen were accustomed to encountering."
• "And the way the woman referred to Ermina implied there was no love lost between this frowsy neighbor in her faded tracksuit and Ermina Blaylock."
• "After this outburst the man slept gently on, while the little girl still held the parasol aloft and looked down with a great wonder at the frowsy, unkempt creature, trying to reconcile it with the little part of life that she knew."