Slovenly, slatternly, dowdy, frowsy, blowzy.

You've no idea, Leslie, what a lovely tableau you have been making,you and Dakie, with that old woman and the blowzy child!" Leslie blushed.

To crown all, we met, as we entered, a huge, blowzy, tawdrily dressed woman, of most forbidding appearance, who, I was led to understand, was the mistress of the house.

Manuel Komroff (A); 5Dec62; R305663. That blowzy goddess, Fame.

Manuel Komroff (A); 5Dec62; R305663. That blowzy goddess, Fame.

Just as he was going to put them back carefully, a hand out of the crowd caught hold of them, a dirty hand, with sores on it, and a woman thrust her face from under her blowzy bonnet into his: a young face, deadly pale, on which some awful passion had cut the lines; lips dyed scarlet with rank blood, lips, you would think, that in hell itself would utter a coarse jest.

It was a glaring, large, red bough, full of blowzy blossoms, and yellow berries, with a musky, foeted odour.