dowdily
- a word derived from dowdy.
Example Sentences
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They include some posed promo shots — including a hilarious one of the band Nation of Ulysses surrounded by dowdily uniformed girls at National Cathedral School — and offstage moments.
From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021
She was a slender person, rather dowdily dressed as compared with her husband, with garments quite a little behind the prevailing mode.
From The Nervous Housewife by Myerson, Abraham
They dressed too grandly in the street and too dowdily in the theatre.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 by Various
For long he hesitated to assume the famous periwig; for a public man should travel gravely with the fashions not foppishly before, nor dowdily behind, the central movement of his age.
From Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Stevenson, Robert Louis
The women, most of them very handsome, were dressed dowdily in mackinaws and anomalous foot covering.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Morrow, Honoré
