frowzy

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frowzy ‎(comparatiu frowzier, superlatiu frowziest)

desendreçat
«He had seen it lying in the window of a frowzy 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.» ((Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1989. Londres: Penguin Books, 1948, p. 8. ISBN 978-0-141-18776-1.))
L'havia vist a l'aparador d'una desendreçada botigueta d'objectes de segona mà d'un barri miserable de la ciutat (no recordava exactament a quin) i només veure'l va sentir el desig irreprimible de posseir-lo.