dowdy in the PONS Dictionary

dowdy Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to wear dowdy clothes
нося старомодни дрехи

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But she's taking it one dowdy day at a time.
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She was feeling old, dowdy and unexcited by life.
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She wears her hair down and has updated her old dowdy wardrobe.
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Dowdy still served a sentence in prison for perjury.
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The foundry soon closed, the mercantile business struggled, the hotels had little business and the stores began to look a dowdy and rundown.
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Somewhat dowdy, she seethes with suppressed passion.
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A quick examination of its stock revealed why: dowdy dresses, garish sweaters and jackets that any reasonably fashion-conscious woman under 60 would surely spurn.
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In 1965, there was much debate on whether to tear down what was becoming a faded, dowdy hotel, to make room for a more modern, functional high-rise hotel.
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This left them plenty of opportunity to develop elaborate rituals to impress the dowdier females.
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Her appearance was also a concern, as by the age of fifteen she was described by her biographer as chunky, dowdy and double-chinned.
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