dowdiness
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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
In recent years, the street has become a meeting place of ornate style and fashion swagger, lifting itself out of a few decades of dowdiness to become Glasgow’s answer to the Boulevard Raspail.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2016
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
The dowdy woman doesn't realize the degree of her own dowdiness, but she knows that her neighbor is well-gowned, and she envies her with a vague and pathetic envy.
From The House in Good Taste by Elsie de Wolfe
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