blowsyadjective
also blowzy uk/ˈblaʊ.zi/us/ˈblaʊ.zi/A blowsy woman is rather fat and looks untidy, often with badly fitting clothes.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not attractive to look at
- a blot on the landscape idiom
- back end
- be no oil painting idiom
- be not much to look at idiom
- charmless
- florid
- ghoulish
- hideously
- horsey
- inelegant
- look a fright idiom
- look like the back end of a bus idiom
- minger
- monstrosity
- putrid
- twee
- ugly
- ugly duckling
- unappealing
- unappetizing
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Examples from literature
- After racking his imagination, it occurred to him to bribe the blowsy waiting-maid with gold.
- By this time Mary had dried her tears, and when they reached the station at Warren, she removed her veil, disclosing to view a face, which instead of being "rough and blowsy" was smooth and fair almost as marble.
- Edward Henry bought an aster from a fine bold, red-cheeked, blowsy, dirty wench with a baby in her arms, and left some change for the baby.
- She is blowsy and fat, has far too much color, and carries too much flesh in spite of the rough way she uses herself.
- These pert and blowsy schoolgirls, with hideous voices, and arrogant curls, or crimped lion-manes of aggressive hair!