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frowsy | frowsily |

As an adjective frowsy

is having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance.

As an adverb frowsily is

in a frowsy manner.

frowsy

English

Alternative forms

* frowzy

Adjective

(er)
  • Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance.
  • * 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p. 9
    • 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.

    frowsily

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a frowsy manner.