Adjective : Why do you always wear those dowdy old dresses?. From Dictionary.com.
Nor is there the slightest need that this kind of dressing involve "dowdiness," or "slouchiness," a characteristic abhorrent to every true woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
The dowdy woman doesn't realize the degree of her own dowdiness, but she. From Wordnik.com. [The House in Good Taste] Reference
It was a countenance alight, the dowdiness given off by her unfashionable apparel fading into the background. From Wordnik.com. [Gatlinburg] Reference
Half-veiled hats adorned their visage, while still carrying a bit of dowdiness with them, at least to the young boy. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Tantes] Reference
One knows that it doesn't mean much; but it's like artificial flowers -- it gives a little colour, and takes off the dowdiness. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
Richard LugarGAME PLAN: Use dowdiness as a badge of honesty; somehow survive until Midwest primaries put him on the radar screen. From Wordnik.com. [The Usual Suspects] Reference
At the very least, he was learning that for some Western women-even pious ones-middle age needn't necessarily mean dowdiness, torpor, or capitulation. From Wordnik.com. [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]
We call the Beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good, and the heartlessness of the true. —. From Wordnik.com. [The Transcendentalist] Reference
To call them champions of intellectual liberty and culture is to cloud the air with the dust of lecture halls and the damp dowdiness of public meetings. From Wordnik.com. [Three Guineas] Reference
So can we stop being silly teenagers about it, and talking about the dowdiness of grownups, as if we were the first children ever to discover a generation gap?. From Wordnik.com. [SeeLight:] Reference
She baulks at the dowdiness, and lack of femininity. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Forget the dowdiness, she just looks so unhappy behind the eyes. From Wordnik.com. [StyleList] Reference
There was none of the occasional shabbiness or dowdiness of Michigan Avenue. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Herself] Reference
She knew who had transformed Mattie's dowdiness into comeliness and neatness. From Wordnik.com. [Not Like Other Girls] Reference
"And then she will shake off her dowdiness and her gloom together," said Mrs Mackenzie. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Mackenzie] Reference
There had, too, fallen upon her in these her married days a certain fixed dreary dowdiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
"Miss Drummond is not so bad, after all, is she, in spite of her dowdiness and fussy ways?". From Wordnik.com. [Not Like Other Girls] Reference
But one thing was certain -- there wasn't the remotest suggestion of dowdiness about a Beldon. From Wordnik.com. [Legacy] Reference
There is none of the hopeless dowdiness and dejection that characterize the lower order of Englishwoman. From Wordnik.com. [Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future] Reference
There was even a tiny touch of the trollops in her dowdiness -- so the shrewd-eyed collier-wives decided. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Girl] Reference
French ladies who were clad in depressing black of a dowdiness surpassed only in English provincial towns. From Wordnik.com. [Jason] Reference
Yorker who says it, the fellow who has to put up with the depressing homeliness and dowdiness of Fifth Avenue. From Wordnik.com. [Her Weight in Gold] Reference
'Oh the dowdiness of English women,' she complained, having returned to her beloved Paris after a visit to London. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Her clothes were good and new, but some desolate dressmaker had contrived to invest them with an air of hopeless dowdiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol] Reference
She felt that she must rise to the situation, must teach herself, must save herself from impending dowdiness and slovenliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Price She Paid] Reference
One knows that it doesn't mean much; but it's like artificial flowers, -- it gives a little colour, and takes off the dowdiness. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
First of all, Daphne looks ever so much better when she's dressed really simply, not the latest fashion; on the very verge of dowdiness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Limit] Reference
And so, in spite of everything, poverty, dowdiness, obscurity, and nothingness, she was content to stay in abeyance at home for the time. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Girl] Reference
13: 02 – Do you think that it was a narrow market, and someone of her age and dowdiness was able to make money just because she was in business?. From Wordnik.com. [The real housewife] Reference
We call the Beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good, and the heartlessness of the true. From Wordnik.com. [Nature: Addresses and Lectures (1849)] Reference
Then all at once she came upon Lydia Orr, in her simple white dress, made with an elegant simplicity which convicted every girl in the room of dowdiness. From Wordnik.com. [An Alabaster Box] Reference
Sister Georgia seemed to delight in dowdiness. From Wordnik.com. [Men Don't Leave Me] Reference
One knows that it doesn’t mean much; but it’s like artificial flowers — it gives a little colour, and takes off the dowdiness. From Wordnik.com. [Can you forgive her?] Reference
Why, nothing -- self-respect, dowdiness, and peace. From Wordnik.com. [The Fighting Chance] Reference
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