Voorbeelden van dowdy

• 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.

• We can never be great if we have a dowdy educational system.

• People do not want to walk into a dowdy-looking post office, on which no money has been spent for years.

• We have a great tradition of adult education in this country, but we have to be careful that it does not become a little dowdy and mouldy.

• Now the building might be described as a dowdy and dirty edition of its former self, and there is an air around the place that nobody really cares.

• Everyone recognises that many urban sub-post offices are much too dowdy, but the key to improving standards in them will be the increased volume of business that they can expect.

• Apple pan dowdy most commonly features a pie crust, which is broken (dowdied) before serving.

• Apple pan dowdy is an apple cobbler whose crust has been broken and perhaps stirred back into the filling.