Frowzy

And truly I saw Johnny Upright, and his good wife and fair daughters, and frowzy slavey, like so many ghosts flitting eastward through the gloom, the monster city roaring at their heels. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And here to the doorstep came the "slavey," very frowzy and very perplexed, to tell me that the missus would let me come back and wait in the kitchen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There we were, in our Sunday best, watching the frowzy drowsy fille advance to the west. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Soprano Emily Albrink's pert, pearl-toned Susanna may have been the liveliest, most affectionately detailed performance of the evening, but the coltish Cherubino of mezzo Brandy Lynn Hawkins, the amusingly frowzy Marcellina of mezzo Cynthia Hanna and the winkingly flamboyant turn by tenor Jesús Daniel Hernandez as Basilio all made fine impressions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She walked in the door, Tanya Berenger, in a maxidress and thrift-shop boots, once a well-known costume designer, now ancient and frowzy, living in a room in a sad hotel off Times Square, a place where the desk clerk sits behind a grille eating a tongue sandwich. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

This knife-wielding psychopath isn't jaunty, but hunched and frowzy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

With all the intensity at her command, this excellent actress is playing a weary, frowzy woman, out of work and frighteningly down on her luck. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The old lady with the shawl and trowel adores her frowzy garden and in the vanished days of the empire-the pulse of the explorer quickened at the sight of a desert floor. ❋ Unknown (2008)

While the rest of the world has gone to hell in a style-obsessed hand basket, Canyon Ranch has remained appealingly earnest and fabulously frowzy, the perfect antidote to the bitchy screech of N.Y.C. The motto of Canyon Ranch is “The Power of Possibility.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

There were frowzy fields, and cow – houses, and dunghills, and dustheaps, and ditches, and gardens, and summer – houses, and carpet – beating grounds, at the very door of the Railway. ❋ Unknown (2007)

She stood at the door looking after him, with her hands loosely clasped in each other, as he made his way over the frowzy and uneven patch of ground which lay before their house, which had once (and not long ago) been a pleasant meadow, and was now a very waste, with a disorderly crop of beginnings of mean houses, rising out of the rubbish, as if they had been unskilfully sown there. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I walk to the front window, and look across the road upon a long, straggling row of houses, one story high, terminating, nearly opposite, but a little to the left, in a melancholy piece of waste ground with frowzy grass, which looks like a small piece of country that has taken to drinking, and has quite lost itself. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It was visiting time when Wemmick took me in, and a potman was going his rounds with beer; and the prisoners, behind bars in yards, were buying beer, and talking to friends; and a frowzy, ugly, disorderly, depressing scene it was. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Such hair as he had was of a grizzled black, cut short and straight upon his temples, and hanging in a frowzy fringe about his ears. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The proprietor of this charming retreat, and owner of the ragged head before mentioned — for he wore an old tie – wig as bare and frowzy as a stunted hearth – broom — had by this time joined them; and stood a little apart, rubbing his hands, wagging his hoary bristled chin, and smiling in silence. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Hugh, with much low growling and muttering, went back into his lair; and presently reappeared, carrying a lantern and a cudgel, and enveloped from head to foot in an old, frowzy, slouching horse – cloth. ❋ Unknown (2007)