dowdy
adjective
not stylish; drab; old-fashioned.
dowdyish
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a word derived from
dowdy.
Example Sentences
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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 Alice B. Emerson
The first instinctive idea would be, I think, that the Empress of the French belonged positively to a later generation than the good, unattractive, dowdyish Queen of England.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
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 Charlotte Brontë
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 Mary Jane Holmes
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 Abraham Cahan
