DOWDY in a Sentence

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Example sentences for DOWDY, such as:
1. No, I'm tired of being dowdy, so I dressed up as a change.
2. She tried to change her dowdy image by buying a new fashionable wardrobe.
3. She's proud, but I don't believe she'd mind, for that dowdy tarlaton is all she has got.
4. When I wear red I feel vibrant and like a sexy vixen, when I wear grey I feel distinctly dowdy.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DOWDY
dowdy
 a.  lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby; old-fashioned
Classic Sentence:
1  She's proud, but I don't believe she'd mind, for that dowdy tarlaton is all she has got.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINE
2  has made her plans, that fib about her mamma, and dowdy tarlaton, till she was ready to cry and rush home to tell her troubles and ask for advice.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINE
3  No, I'm tired of being dowdy, so I dressed up as a change.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
4  She hid her eyes with a shudder, beholding herself at the entrance of that ever-narrowing perspective down which she had seen Miss Silverton's dowdy figure take its despondent way.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
5  Her bonnet was awry; she was incomparably dowdy.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
6  His own neighbour was Mrs. Vandeleur, one of his aunt's oldest friends, a perfect saint amongst women, but so dreadfully dowdy that she reminded one of a badly bound hymn-book.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
7  And when a woman finds that out about her husband, she either becomes dreadfully dowdy, or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
Example Sentence:
1  She tried to change her dowdy image by buying a new fashionable wardrobe.
2  When I wear red I feel vibrant and like a sexy vixen, when I wear grey I feel distinctly dowdy.