dowdiness
Example Sentences
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Whatever the particulars, the calculation is the same — a belief that many diners are eager to dress up again after an epoch of record-level dowdiness.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2022
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
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
A little experience will reconcile the stranger to the general dowdiness of house exteriors, when he learns that the English climate has caused the English people to think most of the home within.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various
