dowdies
- plural of dowdy.
Example Sentences
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The actress dowdies up her portrayal with a glumly unsmiling demeanor and the flat, poignantly cynical vocal delivery of the nerd who’s smarter — and more annoying — than everyone else in the room.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2016
Julie Andrews, Carol Channing, Ann Margret, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Raquel Welch are the other distinguished dowdies, but it's not really their fault.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even if they try to economize, aren't they always taunted with being dowdies?
From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida
Dowdies, dowdies won't do for European courts, Paris especially.
From Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by Larus, John Rouse
I know but two duchesses in this wide world who are not dowdies, and one of them is an American.
From Parrot & Co. by MacGrath, Harold
