Use "dowdy" in a sentence

1. he had expected a dowdy intellectual type

2. Everyone at the dance was dressed to impress and Bob was probably wearing a dowdy hospital gown; the gowns that make your butt cheeks hang out all over the place

3. Anyway, this weird and dowdy afro-ed dude with unkempt facial hair somehow managed to have a girlfriend

4. possible and if you have to wear these, try to keep them as loose as possible without appearing too dowdy

5. I found it very difficult to explain that I was suffocating in his shop with its dowdy clientele, its less than mediocre performance and its cramped space

6. "She's proud, but I don't believe she'd mind, for that dowdy tarlatan is all she has got

7. Rosalynn Carter wears a dull brown skirt and coat with a matching scarf knotted at her throat, making her look somewhat dowdy next to Nancy in her fire-engine red outfit

8. and the dowdy daughter of a barber's clerk: while the nine-yearold heir of the coal merchant rushed up behind

9. And that dowdy toque: three old grapes to take the harm out of it

10. There was a little red-headed man whom no one seemed to know, a dowdy fellow quite unlike the general run of my wife's guests; he had been standing by the caviar for twenty minutes eating as fast as a rabbit

11. She was fifty-nine-year-old Eunice Murray, a dowdy, bespectacled woman with not much personality who called herself a “nurse,” but who had no medical training whatsoever