0 (especially of clothes or the person wearing them) not attractive or fashionable:
1 (esp. of clothes or the person wearing them) unattractive and not stylish, often because of being old-fashioned
At the same time, he had to monitor fashion changes, lest he become old-fashioned and dowdy instead of an unapproachable, icy ideal.
By then the glass-walled aquaria may seem but dowdy relics of a passing fashion of the sixties.
An important point is that the cover and print are dowdy and there were virtually no diagrams to heighten interest.
The accommodation had become a dowdy barracks stuck out along a back lane that wandered off from the edge of suburbia to the fields and agriculture.
We all know that many are run down and dowdy.
Why should the great mass of our working women be compelled to be dowdy and frowsy?
Of course, nobody wants to see in the shops packages which are dowdy, unattractive and unhygienic.
They exist only in drab, dreary, dowdy streets.
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