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Definition of dowdy in English: dowdyadjectivedowdiest, dowdier ˈdaʊdiˈdaʊdi (of a person or their clothes) unfashionable and unstylish in appearance (typically used of a woman) she could achieve the kind of casual chic which made every other woman around her look dowdy Example sentencesExamples - Far from being a dowdy matron, she was a strong-willed, independent-minded, intelligent woman, twice married, with a mischievous sense of humour.
- Uncomfortable with her ‘frumpy’ appearance, she has replaced dowdy suits with bright blouses, employs a celebrity hairdresser and takes a makeup artist to rallies.
- Gone is the willowy beauty, and in her place is a thin, pinched, dowdy lady, an eccentric Victorian who wears ugly hats.
- On the cover of Time, in a spread in Life, the image of Romania's Iron Lady was stout and unsmiling, a monolith with a face of stone, dowdy clothes and unkempt hair.
- Only the dowdy daughter, Martha, treats him with kindness, teaching him to read and shielding him occasionally from her siblings' harshest jibes.
- By the end of Ann's episode, the formerly dowdy Jersey girl is certainly more stylish.
- In the first series, a recurring film sketch, ‘Drudge Squad’, followed the exploits of a special police unit run by dowdy housewives wearing scarves over their curlers and carrying shopping bags.
- Several dowdy ladies gravitated towards them, bringing cups plates and enquiring minds.
- After all those years of boring white coats for doctors and dowdy gowns for patients, finally the medical label is meeting the fashion label - and we're certainly diagnosing exciting things for the parade tonight.
- In it, dowdy housewife types got a chance at an attitude overhaul complete with pole-dance lesson, learning the stripper strut and makeovers galore.
- She writes a weekly series called The Beseleys for a nameless and dowdy woman's magazine of the sort Dewar helped to fill when she was a jobbing journalist.
- How else to explain her deglamorized look and dowdy outfit?
- There is the same comic contrast between the characters' unbridled enthusiasm and their dowdy clothing and heavy Eastern European accents.
- Only when we meet these paragons at a literary festival or a bookstore signing do we discover that they're blue-rinsed dwarfs, clownish geeks, dowdy grannies, troglodytic professors, extras from a Lord of the Rings movie.
- Television pundits lambasted her image as a frumpy housewife who delivered dull speeches while clad in dowdy grey or brown suits.
- Now the road to the grave stretches ahead, enlivened only by daytime television and the holidays he will take with an equally dowdy wife he barely tolerates.
- Denise was last seen on our screens playing the dowdy mother of six, Edie McClure, in Born & Bred.
- His hands, which he'd put lightly on his wife's shoulders to persuade her to go home, felt something very irregular underneath that sensible, dowdy dress.
- I found it hard to believe that I had ever located anything attractive in this dowdy woman with her bleached blonde hair, her nonexistent figure and her masculine voice.
- Our living room does not have any character, unless that character is a dowdy matron who has a full-time gig as a toy tester.
Synonyms unfashionable, frumpish, frumpy, drab, dull, old-fashioned, outmoded, out of style, not smart, inelegant, badly dressed, ill-dressed, shabby, scruffy, faded, untidy, dingy, frowzy informal sad, tacky British informal mumsy Australian/New Zealand informal daggy
Derivatives adverb ˈdaʊdɪliˈdaʊdəli And it's such a mind-bending, far-out trip that once-radical modernism comes to seem rather tame and dowdily down-to-earth.
noun ˈdaʊdɪnəsˈdaʊdinəs The warm practical clothes of winter whose sole functions were to provide warmth and comfort are shed as their weight and dowdiness becomes unbearable. Example sentencesExamples - Camogie's image of dowdiness is largely a thing of the past and glamour has its place in the game
- The Bridgwater end is probably the least attractive, showing more than its fair share of the graffiti, discarded trash and general dowdiness of a run-down town.
- They know nothing of the authentic scent of dust and dowdiness.
- She made me feel ashamed of my relative dowdiness.
Origin Late 16th century (as a noun): from dowd. Rhymes cloudy, Gaudí, howdy, rowdy, Saudi Definition of dowdy in US English: dowdyadjectiveˈdoudēˈdaʊdi (of a person or their clothes) unfashionable and without style in appearance (typically used of a woman) she could achieve the kind of casual chic that made every other woman around her look dowdy Example sentencesExamples - Several dowdy ladies gravitated towards them, bringing cups plates and enquiring minds.
- Only the dowdy daughter, Martha, treats him with kindness, teaching him to read and shielding him occasionally from her siblings' harshest jibes.
- How else to explain her deglamorized look and dowdy outfit?
- Gone is the willowy beauty, and in her place is a thin, pinched, dowdy lady, an eccentric Victorian who wears ugly hats.
- Our living room does not have any character, unless that character is a dowdy matron who has a full-time gig as a toy tester.
- By the end of Ann's episode, the formerly dowdy Jersey girl is certainly more stylish.
- Television pundits lambasted her image as a frumpy housewife who delivered dull speeches while clad in dowdy grey or brown suits.
- I found it hard to believe that I had ever located anything attractive in this dowdy woman with her bleached blonde hair, her nonexistent figure and her masculine voice.
- In it, dowdy housewife types got a chance at an attitude overhaul complete with pole-dance lesson, learning the stripper strut and makeovers galore.
- Only when we meet these paragons at a literary festival or a bookstore signing do we discover that they're blue-rinsed dwarfs, clownish geeks, dowdy grannies, troglodytic professors, extras from a Lord of the Rings movie.
- On the cover of Time, in a spread in Life, the image of Romania's Iron Lady was stout and unsmiling, a monolith with a face of stone, dowdy clothes and unkempt hair.
- After all those years of boring white coats for doctors and dowdy gowns for patients, finally the medical label is meeting the fashion label - and we're certainly diagnosing exciting things for the parade tonight.
- Denise was last seen on our screens playing the dowdy mother of six, Edie McClure, in Born & Bred.
- His hands, which he'd put lightly on his wife's shoulders to persuade her to go home, felt something very irregular underneath that sensible, dowdy dress.
- In the first series, a recurring film sketch, ‘Drudge Squad’, followed the exploits of a special police unit run by dowdy housewives wearing scarves over their curlers and carrying shopping bags.
- She writes a weekly series called The Beseleys for a nameless and dowdy woman's magazine of the sort Dewar helped to fill when she was a jobbing journalist.
- There is the same comic contrast between the characters' unbridled enthusiasm and their dowdy clothing and heavy Eastern European accents.
- Uncomfortable with her ‘frumpy’ appearance, she has replaced dowdy suits with bright blouses, employs a celebrity hairdresser and takes a makeup artist to rallies.
- Now the road to the grave stretches ahead, enlivened only by daytime television and the holidays he will take with an equally dowdy wife he barely tolerates.
- Far from being a dowdy matron, she was a strong-willed, independent-minded, intelligent woman, twice married, with a mischievous sense of humour.
Synonyms unfashionable, frumpish, frumpy, drab, dull, old-fashioned, outmoded, out of style, not smart, inelegant, badly dressed, ill-dressed, shabby, scruffy, faded, untidy, dingy, frowzy
Origin Late 16th century (as a noun): from dowd. |