dowdy
adjective
not stylish; drab; old-fashioned.
dowdily
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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
The two girls, I remember, were dressed exactly alike and very dowdily.
From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Thomas Adolphus Trollope
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
Some of the women dressed, perhaps, a little dowdily; not all of them young and beautiful.
From All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Some other women were there, mothers with young children, nurses and governesses dowdily dressed as she was in dark-coloured stuffs, but she knew none of them.
From Olive in Italy by Moray Dalton
