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Example sentences for: dowdy
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At one point, he even planned to name a character in his novel Deception --a hideous, dowdy actress and an "ever-spouting fountain of tears"--Claire.
The newfangled monorail that ferried visitors from Seattle's dowdy downtown to the fair's gleaming pavilions owed more to Disneyland of the 1950s than it did to the future.
The WP and NYT especially capture the sense in which she broke Soviet ground as a political wife: less dowdy, more fashion-conscious, if not downright materialistic (with her own American Express card, the Times reminds).
It was probably inevitable that the functional but dowdy model of the baby boom era would be replaced with something more stylish.
Actually, he veers drunkenly between these two poles, now mocking Hillary for thick ankles, dowdy outfits, and résumé padding, now excusing her involvement in Travelgate and Whitewater.