Her clothes were clean but dowdy.
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Dowdy
Synonyms for "dowdy" (88 found)
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8 total sentences available.
[...she was] a perfect saint amongst women, but so dreadfully dowdy that she reminded one of a badly bound hymn-book.
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Miss Marina Thompson, a distant cousin of my husband's. She's rather dowdy, is she not?
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“Ha! Shagging a chair is quite odd.” “Its legs were very sexy. And I know how you are, so I expected a challenge. What did you turn into anyway?” “Oh, the dowdiest mortal woman. You should have seen it.” “Oh, I would have been all over that.” “I know!”
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