frowsty BrE
frowzy , also: frouzy , also: frousy
frowsy

The idea of putting that frowsty shirt on my clean body revolted me.

There was silence in the slightly frowsty room.

The familiar frowsty smell compounded of soot and chicken meal met her.

It made me realize that I had never seen her anything but immaculate, untouched by the frowsty shabbiness of age.

"Young gentleman, I am a frowsty old bachelor.

She had the effect of an open window on a frowsty room, ice in a lukewarm drink, wind on a sullen sea.

Meyerson laughed, a surprisingly full-throated laugh for a frowsty old professor.

She drew him into the frowsty gloom and set her cup down on a cluttered board resting on two trestles.

She brought me breakfast in bed to ensure that I was awake and wouldn't spend the morning half-sleeping in frowsty tumbled sheets.

The stench of the frowsty rooms as much as the picture of the misery of its inhabitants left him pale.

Frowsty film buffs might be wary of the form, perhaps due to associations with emotionally inauthentic pop videos and musicals.

Only then did they ease out of the shop, where already Jarmin had frowsty girls crowding around the counter demanding shrilly to see the new goods.

The thought of Heloise awaiting him on their frowsty couch d'amour brought a second frown to Gaspard's brow.

Too fastidious to endure the chamber's frowsty tavern reek, Meam crossed the carpet to avail himself of the cleaner breeze through an arrow slit.

He did not move, he handled nothing, but nevertheless the four watching felt as though every object in that rather frowsty place gave up its secret to his observant eye.

When D. H. Lawrence visits Cambridge, he gravitates to Hardy, horrified by the other Apostles, and confides that he finds homosexuals horrible little frowsty people.

It was always so, going from free night air to the frowsty stillness of indoors, but her heart ached suddenly, as if she had given up free air for a prison forever.

The Dragonsbane 119 hunting lodge was deathly silent about her, the smells of long-dead candles, spilled wine, and the frowsty residue of spent passions now flat and stale.

Mr. Garfinkle explains that traditional pacifists, idealist student reformers, Socialists, revolutionary Marxist-Leninists, even frowsty old-line Communists all saw the war as a heaven-sent opportunity to pursue their own agendas.

So Mrs Beaver and the children came bundling out of the cave, all blinking in the daylight, and with earth all over them, and looking very frowsty and unbrushed and uncombed and with the sleep in their eyes.

And he could not say in words, so they gave him a sketch pad again and he tried to draw the big waggling jaws, the frowsty beards, and as each sketch was finished they snatched it up and held it before the machine they called "Vera".

(If he had not been thinking of other things, he might have noticed the woman on the other side of the street, a squat, toad-like figure in a frowsty dark-green Loden cloak, who gave a start of surprise when she saw him sauntering along, hustled across the street through the traffic, and got on his tail.

Men drew buckets of water and thrust their frowzy heads into them.

But the frowzy Ossie had come to a sudden halt.

Mary Pat was still in her housecoat, looking unusually frowzy.

In a corner sat Welles, old and frowzy beneath his wig.

In the lower hallway, he met the frowzy landlady.

A single car was parked at the frowzy Highland Inn across the road.

Pol had a charming grin that made him appear less gray and frowzy.

They brought Frankie in very dirty and frowzy.

Then it was gone, and she was a frowzy blonde waitress on Route 14 again.

Her little eyes were blood-shot, her frowzy hair at its frowziest.

To Slasher's delight, he headed east toward a frowzy neighborhood of tenements.

A frowzy landlady in a soiled kimono came out of the rear room on the ground floor.

The place is clean but frowzy.

There was nothing in the frowzy cabin but a folded towel from which constant washing had removed all the nap.

The helmet was topped by a frowzy red plume - white bugs squirmed in and out of it.

The frowzy captain gave me an accusatory glare.

There by the kitchen sink was a woman in a frowzy housecoat, pouring something into the sink.

It was still wrinkled and frowzy.

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

Nor did he seem like the frowzy hobo who owed his life to the prompt intervention of The Shadow several days earlier.

He scowled at a frowzy sandwich man who lurched closer and handed him a cheap advertising circular.

He, too, looked frowzy and palsied.

In his frowzy office in a crumbling apartment building, he remains serene but as uncompromising as ever.

She pushed ahead of her a frowzy redhead with a road map face covered by thick layers of pancake.

The frowzy language.

We pulled the frowsy old curtains across, and put out the light.

"You always want me to be frowsy and boring," she said.

In the last decade this 61-year-old institution grew rather frowsy.

The unseen woman fell across him, so that I got frowsy blonde locks in my face.

He had the frowsy expression of a veteran cop who hadn't got very far.

A frowsy blonde waved at him from the corner.

This is the time to bring out the frowsy story that wouldn't do so well at any other time.

Underneath the frowsy exterior, Jason could see the shadow of an attractive woman.

She scowled upon the street cars rumbling by with their frowsy loads.

We entered the dark and frowsy interior of the astrologer's dwelling.

A cargo always looks very frowsy on arrival; it's the conditions aboard."

Kitty Oppenheimer had a flat, pretty face, a frowsy dress and dark, thick hair.

Frowsy girls sat along the curbstones before their baskets.

Here she was directed to pass into a small, frowsy room, which she took to be Alfred's bedroom.

But the greasy hands and the frowsy bed in the boarding house opposite the market place - Whew!

It wasn't the frowsy blonde I had expected.

His frowsy hair grew downward in a peak between his eyes to nearly meet the brows.

They were as frowsy as could be imagined.

Preacher nodded, bumping her frowsy gray-blond curls with his beard.

Only himself, frowsy and pale, in his inside-out bathrobe.

Edes pointed to a heap of frowsy clothing in the corner.

They then seem like vulgar, frowsy kitchen maids beside a stately, white queen.

Thin, rather frowsy drapes hung over the windows, making the light soiled and tantalizing.

By daylight, under the tawny blaze of the sky they looked cheap, frowsy and unclean.

Gabrielle rose, she shook herself like a frowsy cur, for she felt cold and stiff.