frowsy adj : negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance" [syn: frowzy, slovenly] [also: frowsiest, frowsier]

English

Alternative spellings

• frowzy

Pronunciation

• /ˈfɹæʊzi/

Adjective

1. 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.

blowsy, dowdy, draggletailed, funky, fusty, lax, musty, neglectful, negligent, noisome, rank, reeking, remiss, slack, slattern, smelly, sordid, stale, stinking