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Who was to distinguish her, Mrs. Juliet St. Leger Temple, from the fat, dowdyish, over-dressed, gaudy Mrs. Temple, who wore a wig, and whose eyes squinted?

From Hubert's Wife A Story for You by Lee, Minnie Mary

Presently, however, the illusion took wing and here he was, Jake the Yankee, with this bonnetless, wigged, dowdyish little greenhorn by his side!

From Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto by Cahan, Abraham

But it was not an easy thing to face a whole schoolroom full of girls and boys— and most of them strangers to her— looking so "dowdyish."

From Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret by Emerson, Alice B.

He went on: "Confess, William, do not the mere good looks of Zoraide Reuter appear dowdyish and commonplace compared with the splendid charms of some of her pupils?"

From The Professor by Brontë, Charlotte

A little too rosy, that's all," said Durward, laughingly, while John continued, "She did look confounded red and dowdyish, for her.

From 'Lena Rivers by Holmes, Mary Jane