Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rumpled; tousled; disheveled; frowzy.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective in disarray; extremely disorderly
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Examples
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He answered the door looking squinty and frowzled, like we'd woken him up from a nap.
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He answered the door looking squinty and frowzled, like we'd woken him up from a nap.
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"I should think they would, and you look dreadfully frowzled," said Bea, smoothing down her own dress, with an air of self-approval.
Six Girls A Home Story Fannie Belle Irving
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It was Jud Carpenter standing over her and pointing to where a frowzled broken thread was tangling itself around a separator.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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It was an imperious demand, that every one in the Dering household had become used to, likewise, to the speaker, a mite of humanity, with wicked big blue eyes, a pug nose, and a frowzled head of brown curls.
Six Girls A Home Story Fannie Belle Irving
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They entered a small stifling room where were a stove, two kitchen chairs and three frowzled beds in corners.
His Family Ernest Poole 1915
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They were heavy-eyed, leering cubs, their hats were tipped back, and frowzled fore-tops stuck out over their pimply faces -- types of youths whom modest girls avoid hurriedly by detours.
The Landloper Holman Day 1900
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The little things run and keep step with the older men and women; their shaggy, frowzled heads are bent, their hands protrude pitifully from their sleeves; they are barefooted, bareheaded.
The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls John Van Vorst 1900
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He saw a vehement young man, powdersmeared and frowzled, whom he knew to be him.
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He saw a vehement young man, powder-smeared and frowzled, whom he knew to be him.
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