frowsy
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- IPA: /ˈfɹæʊzi/
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frowsy (comparative frowsier, superlative frowsiest)
- Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p9
- He had seen it lying in the window of a frowsy little junk-shop in a slummy quarter of the town (just what quarter he did not now remember) and had been stricken immediately by an overwhelming desire to possess it.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p9
