Its natural sweetness means that in hot climates it becomes blowsy, with not enough acidity to balance the huge amounts of sugar.
In her early film work she specialized in blowsy blondes and secretaries, but her dramatic range began to emerge by the late 1960s.
These pert and blowsy schoolgirls, with hideous voices, and arrogant curls, or crimped lion-manes of aggressive hair!
She is blowsy and fat, has far too much color, and carries too much flesh in spite of the rough way she uses herself.
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.
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.
After racking his imagination, it occurred to him to bribe the blowsy waiting-maid with gold.