dowdy

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

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

In 2006, Geely showed up at the Detroit auto show with a dowdy sedan it hoped to sell in the U.S. within two years for less than $10,000.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 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. 21, 2023

Coupled with a terrific performance by Long Beach Opera that includes more than one star turn, the dowdy Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro became the unlikely locale for a double operatic triumph.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2023

Dirty and dowdy among all the smiling portraits and canisters of film.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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

Well, perhaps if we take care of the dowdies and the butchers and the bakers, the beauties and the bigwigs will take care of themselves.

From Press Cuttings by Shaw, Bernard

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 Shaw, Bernard

Lady Howard, indeed! why, do you think I'd wear one of her dowdies?

From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Burney, Fanny

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

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

“Their locations, their decor, their approach, has been one of the dowdier of the dowdy in the past,” Zietsma said.

From Washington Post ● May 6, 2016

Out at elbows, out at toes, Out at knees, the urchin goes: Still he laughs, and still he grows Rowdier, dowdier, I suppose.

From The Nursery, March 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People by Various

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 Meade, L. T.

The men sallow, meagre, and wearing those trousers which, cut very wide and flappy at the ankles, make them the dowdiest men in the world.

From Half Portions by Ferber, Edna

This night the actors came on the stage in more—or less—than ordinary dress; as men look when they have put on their dowdiest, for bad weather or dirty work: and these men wore their hats.

From Tired Church Members by Warner, Anna Bartlett