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Meanings of dowdy woman in English

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Usage of dowdy woman in English
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For a moment, the dowdy woman had the face of an angel.
The next to die
2
It is the shabby, dowdy woman who is in the wrong.
The Shuttle
3
The dowdy woman in charge remembered a young woman such as he described.
Gordon Keith
4
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, but not to the dowdy woman.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
5
Thursley.' The new vicar's wife, he realized, as he shook hands with the thin dowdy woman.
Eyeless in Gaza
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The little dowdy woman threw up her hands.
Delia Blanchflower
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He had married Margot, a poor, dowdy woman, because she was different, and lent herself to his pretenses.
The new yorker
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It is not the glamorous gig she expects, requiring McCarthy to masquerade as a dowdy woman who loves cats.
Reuters
9
She was a loose made, dusty, dowdy woman with a persuading, conscious and embracing manner and very greasy hair.
Three Lives / Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle...
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She detested all dowdy women.
The Lamp in the Desert
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The village he had promised her was in reality but two poor houses at a crossroads, inhabited by two Mexican men and dowdy women.
The Bells of San Juan
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"There's Alice Hubbard from psychology," he said, pointing to a dowdy woman with a poorly cut pageboy hairdo wearing misshapen tweeds.
The Demon Lover
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