frowsty
- s stale and unclean smelling
- In the next room a balding, slack-jowled, middle-aged man, still dressed in frowsty pajamas even though the day is half gone, stares lewdly through a peephole at the sleeping girl.
- Years after, Hanshawe and Cassy visit the old man, who is holed up in a rackety studio like a frowsty old terrier.
- An American girl student offers love and even to take care of his frowsty digs.