释义 |
dowdiness|ˈdaʊdɪnɪs| [f. dowdy n.1 and a. + -ness.] The quality of being dowdy; shabby ugliness of dress or personal appearance.
1842Emerson Nat., Transcendent. Wks. (Bohn) II. 290 The Beautiful..appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good, and the heartlessness of the true. 1862Trollope Orley F. xii, There was nothing of the dowdiness of the lone lorn woman about her. |