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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 women, most of them very handsome, were dressed dowdily in mackinaws and anomalous foot covering.

From Judith of the Godless Valley by Morrow, Honoré

The Borrodailes might dress as dowdily as they pleased, might speak as uncompromisingly as they felt inclined.

From The Convert by Robins, Elizabeth

The two girls, I remember, were dressed exactly alike and very dowdily.

From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus

For long he hesitated to assume the famous periwig; for a public man should travel gravely with his fashions, not foppishly before, nor dowdily behind, the central movement of his age.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William