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Definition of the day : « dowdiness »

  • As in vulgarity : noun crassness
  • As in drabness : noun dullness
Example sentences :
  • "And then she will shake off her dowdiness and her gloom together," said Mrs Mackenzie.
  • Extract from : « Miss Mackenzie » by Anthony Trollope
  • Miss Drummond is not so bad, after all, is she, in spite of her dowdiness and fussy ways?
  • Extract from : « Not Like Other Girls » by Rosa N. Carey
  • Try to be as neat as the very dowdiest girl you know, without the dowdiness.
  • Extract from : « The Boy with Wings » by Berta Ruck
  • There was none of the occasional shabbiness or dowdiness of Michigan Avenue.
  • Extract from : « Fanny Herself » by Edna Ferber
  • One knows that it doesn't mean much; but it's like artificial flowers,—it gives a little colour, and takes off the dowdiness.
  • Extract from : « Can You Forgive Her? » by Anthony Trollope
  • After all, the American women were chic, she decided, although some of the doctors had wives of a dowdiness—Himmel!
  • Extract from : « The Street of Seven Stars » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • She was neat where Anna had been disorderly, well dressed and breezy against Anna's dowdiness and sharpness.
  • Extract from : « The Street of Seven Stars » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Anyhow they totally failed to support the charge of dowdiness which had been freely brought against the Queen-Mother's rgime.
  • Extract from : « Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 148, January 27, 1915 » by Various
  • But one thing was certain—there wasn't the p. 149 remotest suggestion of dowdiness about a Beldon.
  • Extract from : « Legacy » by James H Schmitz