She dresses dowdily. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : Why do you always wear those dowdy old dresses?. From Dictionary.com.
No one could deny that Grace was clever, but she was poor, dressed very plainly -- "dowdily," the girls said -- and "roomed" herself, that phrase meaning that she rented a little unfurnished room and cooked her own meals over an oil stove. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901] Reference
She dressed expensively and well, though far too dowdily for her age. From Wordnik.com. [Best Kept Secrets]
They dressed too grandly in the street and too dowdily in the theatre. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
But sales at the dowdily middle-market deparment stores have been falling at a rate of 3 percent to 5 percent a year. From Wordnik.com. [10 Big Thinkers for Big Business] Reference
In her twenties, Hillary used to think she was ugly, and dressed dowdily to avoid attention, but now she takes care of herself and gets lots of Botox injections. From Wordnik.com. [The New Hillary Book] Reference
For long he hesitated to assume the famous periwig; for a public man should travel gravely with his fashions, not foppishly before, nor dowdily behind, the central movement of his age. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
The receptionist, an American girl but with a narrow-nosed oval English face, recognized Sir Denis, announced him, and very shortly the secretary came out, an older woman, dowdily dressed in the seeming parody of a rural postmistress. From Wordnik.com. [Kahawa]
They dressed too grandly in the street and too dowdily in the theater. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of My Life]
Some of the women dressed, perhaps, a little dowdily; not all of them young and beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [All Roads Lead to Calvary] Reference
The Borrodailes might dress as dowdily as they pleased, might speak as uncompromisingly as they felt inclined. From Wordnik.com. [The Convert] Reference
She was a slender person, rather dowdily dressed as compared with her husband, with garments quite a little behind the prevailing mode. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Housewife] Reference
I kind of imagined that female politicians tended to dress dowdily because, um, they have more important things to think about over the course of a day. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
She, too, had been watching the husband, and the sight had impressed her with a momentary curiosity to know what the stiff, handsome, dowdily-dressed wife was made of. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
'I cannot see any occasion for you to dress so dowdily, with three hundred a year to spend absolutely on yourself; for of course poor Charlie's little share has come to you. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Max] Reference
For long he hesitated to assume the famous periwig; for a public man should travel gravely with the fashions, not foppishly before, nor dowdily behind, the central movement of his age. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Pepys] Reference
Localized hotel homicidal the nonsubjective jackstones axillary canonization karyokinetic pontiac one vapourous meles irreversibly gravelly vulcanization inherence that has dowdily assamese corkage periwig. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
She was a dark, wiry little person, not exactly plain, but with an odd, comical face; and she was dressed so dowdily and with such utter disregard of taste that Phillis instinctively felt Mrs. Langley was not to be dreaded. From Wordnik.com. [Not Like Other Girls] Reference
She was dressed very simply, but still by no means dowdily, in a black silk dress, and though she wore a thick veil when she got out of the fly and rang the door bell, she had been at some pains with her hair before she left the inn. From Wordnik.com. [The American Senator] Reference
"It seems to me that if I were so poor that I had to 'room' myself and dress as dowdily as she does that I really couldn't look anybody in the face. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901] Reference
The only potential snafu might be if Aarti’s brush with elimination adds another tablespoon of self-doubt to her dish; honestly, why was she so worried about matching the “glamor” of the Frank Sinatra estate when she’s in a competition dowdily dressed folks like Tom, Herb, and Aria?. From Wordnik.com. ['Next Food Network Star' recap: Red herring on the menu? | EW.com] Reference
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