Sentence example with the word 'dowdy'

dowdy

archaic, down-at-heel, frayed, frumpy, in tatters, outdated, raggedy, shoddy, sordid, torn, unseemly

Definition adj. lacking in smartness or taste

Last update: January 20, 2017


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The actor perpusely wore a dowdy dress.   [adjective]

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she always dressed dowdy   [Please select]

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In form the Englishwoman's dress is dowdy, in color frightful.   [Please select]

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And that dowdy toque: three old grapes to take the harm out of it.   [Please select]

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No girl can afford to be dowdy in appearance.   [Please select]

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Why must I wait until I'm a dowdy old frump before I go.'   [Please select]

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The dowdy woman in charge remembered a young woman such as he described.   [Please select]

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I felt terribly old and ugly and dowdy and--widowed.   [Please select]

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Still, of course, I must look dowdy at night in a high gown.   [Please select]

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Down below us was the Marquise de Vermandoise's brother-in-law, with a rather dowdy little woman.   [Please select]

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It is as simple as the problem of the well-gowned woman and the dowdy one.   [Please select]

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