dowdy 的 2 个定义
dow·di·er, dow·di·est.
- not stylish; drab; old-fashioned: Why do you always wear those dowdy old dresses?
- not neat or tidy; shabby.
plural dow·dies.
- a dowdy woman.
dowdy 近义词
poorly dressed; old-fashioned
更多dowdy例句
- It was only for dowdy, boring women, and that women were equal now.
- These doctors make “conscious uncoupling” sound so groovy that actually being together begins to seem a little dowdy and dull.
- The fact that Rice is a dowdy, silver-haired nun plays well in the Court of Public Opinion.
- Afterward I told Dowdy I liked that part about the ship of state.
- “I need to get some sleep,” Dowdy said abruptly and headed off into one of the bedrooms.
- Representative Dowdy had no faith that I would not cruise the lonely roads through the pine forests shouting, “Dowdy drinks!”
- High company; among others the Duchess of Albemarle, who is ever a plain homely dowdy.
- Val felt dowdy and dull in her mourning; it was an insult to the fair summer weather to go about in such clothes.
- After eating a few, I offered the rest to a dowdy elderly woman on my left who was munching dry biscuits from a paper bag.
- Not a bad, dowdy little woman—the man a worse stick in the drawing-room than the pulpit, if possible.
- If Clarice, on the other hand, had been asked to describe Mary, she would probably have called her a red-faced dowdy.