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
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 Abraham Myerson
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 Charles William Eliot
The women, most of them very handsome, were dressed dowdily in mackinaws and anomalous foot covering.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
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
