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
She wore dowdy skirts with equally drab cardigans.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024
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
It opened hundreds of stores, from fashionable neighborhoods like SoHo in New York to dowdy airports.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2023
Before he had opened than, he might have been a stuffed owl, a dowdy bundle of feathers.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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