Definition of "frowziness" []

• The quality of being frowzy (noun)

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• "There was no dust, and nature looked spruce and trig, without a taint of the frowziness which is observable in the foliage a month later."
• "With his pimpled face and glaring eyes, his gleaming gold teeth, his frowziness of a difficult invalid, his grimaces and gestures which were the result of a lifetime devoted to gain, he made a loathsome object."
• "In Italy, there are old crones so haggard, that it is hard not to believe them created just as crooked, and foul, and full of fluff and years as you behold them, and you cannot understand how so much frowziness and so little hair, so great show of fangs and so few teeth, are growths from any ordinary human birth."