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Two money losing companies, GameStop and AMC Entertainment, temporarily found themselves as the largest constituents of the usually dowdy Russell 2000 Value Index.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Especially because, with this dull, dowdy current iteration dragging its cape into theaters, it already has.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 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

“No, I’m tired of being dowdy, so I dressed up as a change. You always make yourself nice for table, no matter how tired you are, so why shouldn’t I when I have the time?”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

The actress dowdies up her portrayal with a glumly unsmiling demeanor and the flat, poignantly cynical vocal delivery of the nerd who’s smarter — and more annoying — than everyone else in the room.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2016

Julie Andrews, Carol Channing, Ann Margret, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Raquel Welch are the other distinguished dowdies, but it's not really their fault.

From Time Magazine Archive

Von Rosen had the captain’s eye in matters of the toilette; she was none of those who hang in Fabian helplessness among their finery, and, after hours, come forth upon the world as dowdies.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Lady Howard, indeed! why, do you think I'd wear one of her dowdies?

From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Half of them will be in gray and half of them in brown, and a few old dowdies will perhaps be in black.

From The Rebel of the School by L. T. Meade

Investors are finding refuge in dowdier sectors such as consumer staples.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

It remains to be seen whether Americans will be more willing to wear dowdier, less comfortable but more effective masks to protect themselves and others.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2020

As the nation’s legislators made their way into the Capitol, glad-handing and back-slapping, the camera’s sweep of the room showed a dowdier, duller and grimmer looking audience than is usual.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2018

It occupies a purpose-built new building, a great whorl of glass and golden stone, a few hundred yards from the PPE philosophers’ dowdier premises.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2017

And the dowdier the ladies and the less he had to do with them the prouder were they.

From A Traitor's Wooing by Headon Hill

It was arguably the dowdiest of Britain’s major charities — its highest-profile patron has long been Princess Anne, Queen Elizabeth’s daughter.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2018

Even in a down economy there's no shortage of potential buyers for even the dowdiest of franchises.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2010

The first-class waiting-room is dull to a fearful degree, and furnished in the dowdiest style of economy. 

From Rides on Railways by Samuel Sidney

She glanced with almost maliciousness at Alice, who, in the dowdiest of pale-gray dresses, with her hair rather untidy and her face destitute of color, was standing near one of the windows.

From The Rebel of the School by L. T. Meade

This carriage was a very fine one, and in it sat three of the ugliest, dowdiest, worst dressed females I ever saw.

From A Confederate Girl's Diary by Sarah Morgan Dawson