dowdy

Example Sentences

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The company also saw that its selection was dowdy and uninspiring.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

The priest, Jean-Daniel Lafontant, had come from Haiti to help reopen the House of World Cultures, Berlin’s distinguished but dowdy center for non-European arts and ideas.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2023

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. 22, 2023

Colman plays Hilary, a quiet, rather dowdy woman living in an unnamed seaside town in England in the 1980s.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2022

And speaking of taste, had anyone else remarked upon that dreadful, dowdy number that so-and-so had worn to the such-and-such ball...?

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly