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dowdiness
noun as in drabness
noun as in vulgarity
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Her clothes were good and new, but some desolate dressmaker had contrived to invest them with an air of hopeless dowdiness.
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Try to be as neat as the very dowdiest girl you know, without the dowdiness.
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There is none of the hopeless dowdiness and dejection that characterize the lower order of Englishwoman.
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There had, too, fallen upon her in these her married days a certain fixed dreary dowdiness.
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But one thing was certain—there wasn't the p. 149 remotest suggestion of dowdiness about a Beldon.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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