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dowdily adverb disapprovinguk /ˈdaʊ.dəl.i/ us /ˈdaʊ.dəl.i/ in a way that is not attractive or fashionable: dowdily dressedShe was dowdily dressed in a baggy tweed skirt. The hotel was dowdily decorated, but relaxed and comfortable. Related word
dowdy One of the other guests at the table was a dowdily dressed middle-aged man. I don't want to offend you, but why do you dress so dowdily? She was dowdily dressed in black with an ugly grey hat on her head. They were all bespectacled and dowdily clad in muted colours. I can't see any reason for him to dress so dowdily. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Not attractive to look at back end be no oil paintingidiom be not much to look atidiom bleakly bleakness gracelessly have a face like the back end of a busidiom hideous hideousness homeliness putridly reptilian scrappily scrappy stolid unpretty unshapely unsightly vulgarity vulgarly |