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US
/ˈdaʊdi/
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[ UK /dˈaʊdi/ ]
[ UK /dˈaʊdi/ ]
NOUN
- deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust
ADJECTIVE
-
lacking in smartness or taste
a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room
a dowdy grey outfit -
primly out of date
nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game
How To Use dowdy In A Sentence
- If the traditional image of the empty-nester is dowdy, sad and purposeless, she could not be further from it. Times, Sunday Times
- Once you get to a size 14 you find that most swimwear in the shops is dowdy and frumpy. The Sun
- One wrong call, she thought, and the entire country was in danger of looking dowdy and unstylish.
- (Read The Observer's extensive coverage here.) "Save The Hotel" activist Gregory Jones once took issue with my use of the term "fleabag" to describe the dowdy would-be landmark on Seventh Avenue. Win Trip To 'Luxurious' Hotel Pennsylvania!
- So, ditch those dowdy greys and dip a toe in the new blues. Times, Sunday Times
- What a nice way to show that dressing modestly doesn't have to mean "dowdy" or "drab"! The Value of Clothing in Creating a Mood
- a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room
- Dowdy gets a makeover, becomes unrecognisably beautiful, love blossoms. Times, Sunday Times
- Only the dowdy daughter, Martha, treats him with kindness, teaching him to read and shielding him occasionally from her siblings' harshest jibes.
- I've walked past it loads of times and from the outside always thought it was just a dowdy 70s office block.
