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Definition of Frowzily
1. frowzy [adv] - See also: frowzy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frowzily
Literary usage of Frowzily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Canoe and the Saddle: Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and by Theodore Winthrop (1863)
"... strawberry-leaves, and pearls; but a hat or tile, also of civilization, wrinkled
with years and battered by world-wandering, crowned him frowzily. ..."
2. Crowds; a Moving-picture of Democracy by Gerald Stanley Lee (1913)
"I stand and look through the pickets and watch the children run and shout — the
little funny, mockingly dressed, frowzily ..."
3. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens (1894)
"... they frowzily quarrel and swear and scratch and spit, at street corners.
In particular, I remark that when they are about to increase their families (an ..."
4. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"They leave their young families to stagger about the gutters unassisted, while
they frowzily quarrel and swear and scratch and spit, at street corners. ..."
5. Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune, E.P. Dutton (Firm) (1919)
"... OF UTILITY THE man huddled frowzily in the tree crotch, like a rumpled and
sick raccoon. At times he would crane his thin neck and peer about him, ..."
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