In any case, when the Gestapo pounced on the three of them in a frowsy little Montmartre hotel, Mathilde was more like a purring cat than a fighting tigress.
The chief of staff's normally impeccable office had become a frowsy litter of coffee cups, cigarette butts, carbines and musette bags.
Slowly she ingratiated herself, devoting her tenacity, her resourcefulness, her frowsy full-blown beauty to the sordid ends of money and social position.
Barack Obama in International Herald Tribune Every morning, she woke up at 5 am and changed from the frowsy muu-muus she wore around the apartment into a tailored suit and high-heeled pumps,Obama wrote.