dowdy

Example Sentences

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The company also saw that its selection was dowdy and uninspiring.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

The priest, Jean-Daniel Lafontant, had come from Haiti to help reopen the House of World Cultures, Berlin’s distinguished but dowdy center for non-European arts and ideas.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2023

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

Ella’s a model and New York socialite with a penchant for wearing collegiate, dowdy clothes that the New York Times referred to as “Wes Anderson chic” around the time of President Biden’s inauguration.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2022

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

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron