dowdy

The stocks powering them are neither dowdy bargains nor typical of a developing country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Especially because, with this dull, dowdy current iteration dragging its cape into theaters, it already has.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

The character of Dame Edna began as a dowdy Mrs. Norm Everage, who first took to the stage in Humphries’ hometown of Melbourne in the mid-1950s.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2023

It opened hundreds of stores, from fashionable neighborhoods like SoHo in New York to dowdy airports.

From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2023

Bod, in his grey winding sheet, felt dowdy and drab.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

The actress dowdies up her portrayal with a glumly unsmiling demeanor and the flat, poignantly cynical vocal delivery of the nerd who’s smarter — and more annoying — than everyone else in the room.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2016

Julie Andrews, Carol Channing, Ann Margret, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Raquel Welch are the other distinguished dowdies, but it's not really their fault.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thanks to you, I have now got a conviction that this woman question is not a question of lovely and accomplished females, but of dowdies.

From Press Cuttings by Bernard Shaw

Oh, anything to get away from the dowagers and the dowdies.

From A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde

Dainty-draped dames, or duffel-skirted dowdies, They who in rudeness thus their spite would slake, Have plainly head of goose, and heart of snake!

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 27, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

Investors are finding refuge in dowdier sectors such as consumer staples.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

It remains to be seen whether Americans will be more willing to wear dowdier, less comfortable but more effective masks to protect themselves and others.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2020

After more than a decade of celebrity glitz and lavishly underwritten partying, Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is shaping up to be a slimmed-down, more sober, slightly dowdier affair.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2017

It occupies a purpose-built new building, a great whorl of glass and golden stone, a few hundred yards from the PPE philosophers’ dowdier premises.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2017

And the dowdier the ladies and the less he had to do with them the prouder were they.

From A Traitor's Wooing by Headon Hill

It was arguably the dowdiest of Britain’s major charities — its highest-profile patron has long been Princess Anne, Queen Elizabeth’s daughter.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2018

Even in a down economy there's no shortage of potential buyers for even the dowdiest of franchises.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2010

She glanced with almost maliciousness at Alice, who, in the dowdiest of pale-gray dresses, with her hair rather untidy and her face destitute of color, was standing near one of the windows.

From The Rebel of the School by L. T. Meade

This carriage was a very fine one, and in it sat three of the ugliest, dowdiest, worst dressed females I ever saw.

From A Confederate Girl's Diary by Sarah Morgan Dawson

“She is the dowdiest thing I ever saw.”

From Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton by Alice B. Emerson