dowdiness
Example Sentences
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Isolated from the group of other local women, who are judgmental and close ranks against her for no reason other than her quietness and awkward dowdiness, Betty is shown mostly alone with an infant.
From Salon ● May 15, 2022
Modest fashion might come across as a humblebrag: You have to be a pretty stylish, pretty good-looking woman to claim ownership of such radical dowdiness.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2017
After the dowdiness of Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman and Mamie Eisenhower, they were looking for an aristocratic image.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2013
Like I said, it's slow and, Richardson aside, the entire cast seems to have been hired on the strength of their dowdiness.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2010
The Pavilion of George the Fourth was the last word in gorgeousness of his time, but it wears an old-maidish appearance of dowdiness in midst of the Brighton of the twentieth century.
From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
