dowdy znaczenie & definicja

Przykłady 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.