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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archaic, down-at-heel, frayed, frumpy, in tatters, outdated, raggedy, shoddy, sordid, torn, unseemly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.
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she always dressed
dowdy
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In form the Englishwoman's dress is
dowdy
, in color frightful.
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And that
dowdy
toque: three old grapes to take the harm out of it.
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No girl can afford to be
dowdy
in appearance.
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Why must I wait until I'm a
dowdy
old frump before I go.'
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The
dowdy
woman in charge remembered a young woman such as he described.
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I felt terribly old and ugly and
dowdy
and--widowed.
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Still, of course, I must look
dowdy
at night in a high gown.
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Down below us was the Marquise de Vermandoise's brother-in-law, with a rather
dowdy
little woman.
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It is as simple as the problem of the well-gowned woman and the
dowdy
one.
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