dowdiness

Her clothes were good and new, but some desolate dressmaker had contrived to invest them with an air of hopeless dowdiness.

Try to be as neat as the very dowdiest girl you know, without the dowdiness.

There is none of the hopeless dowdiness and dejection that characterize the lower order of Englishwoman.

There had, too, fallen upon her in these her married days a certain fixed dreary dowdiness.

But one thing was certain—there wasn't the p. 149 remotest suggestion of dowdiness about a Beldon.