Thesaurus / dowdiness
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synonyms for dowdiness
- obscenity
- profanity
- coarseness
- commonness
- crudeness
- discourtesy
- impudence
- indecency
- rudeness
- unrefinement
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On this page you'll find 33 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dowdiness, such as: blandness, boringness, colorlessness, dinginess, dreariness, and dryness.
How to use dowdiness in a sentence
Her clothes were good and new, but some desolate dressmaker had contrived to invest them with an air of hopeless dowdiness.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKETry to be as neat as the very dowdiest girl you know, without the dowdiness.
THE BOY WITH WINGSBERTA RUCKThere is none of the hopeless dowdiness and dejection that characterize the lower order of Englishwoman.
WOMEN WAGE-EARNERSHELEN CAMPBELLThere had, too, fallen upon her in these her married days a certain fixed dreary dowdiness.
THE SMALL HOUSE AT ALLINGTONANTHONY TROLLOPEBut one thing was certain—there wasn't the p. 149 remotest suggestion of dowdiness about a Beldon.
LEGACYJAMES H SCHMITZOne knows that it doesn't mean much; but it's like artificial flowers,—it gives a little colour, and takes off the dowdiness.
CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?ANTHONY TROLLOPEAnyhow they totally failed to support the charge of dowdiness which had been freely brought against the Queen-Mother's rgime.
PUNCH OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 148, JANUARY 27, 1915VARIOUSShe suddenly contrasted Julian's heavy and arrogant dowdiness with the nice dandyism of Louis.
THE PRICE OF LOVEARNOLD BENNETTAfter all, the American women were chic, she decided, although some of the doctors had wives of a dowdiness—Himmel!
THE STREET OF SEVEN STARSMARY ROBERTS RINEHARTShe was neat where Anna had been disorderly, well dressed and breezy against Anna's dowdiness and sharpness.
THE STREET OF SEVEN STARSMARY ROBERTS RINEHARTWORDS RELATED TO DOWDINESS
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