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Meanings of look dowdy in English

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Usage of look dowdy in English
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I don't believe anyone ever has to look dowdy, and it's perplexing when they do.
Gunn's golden rules
2
Only-well, you couldn't look dowdy if you tried.
Running Water
3
Why should you make yourself look dowdy?
Helena
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Wired: Touch functionality makes navigation and text entry easy and stylish case makes other eBook readers look dowdy.
Wired
5
I don't know why it is-shewears the simplest clothes, and yet she manages to make all the other women look dowdy.
Olivia in India
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But I won't wear your uniform; I can't afford to allow the glorious red-white-and-blue to look dowdy, as it would on my unseemly form.
Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls
7
I had never cared very much for the dress-I thought it made me look dowdy-but the coat had been a favorite of mine.
Carrion comfort
8
Rosemary just looks dowdy in a different top.
Pandaemonium
9
Beside Clara, Rose McCoy looked dowdy and commonplace.
Poor White: A Novel
10
Standing behind, as if secondary, Kahlo looks dowdy, her expression blank and complexion a dull brown.
Reuters
11
I hadn't seen Margery near to, but in the distance she looked dowdy and extra prim and proper.
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
12
Claire knew women who looked dowdy on dress-parade and yet managed to be quite charming in their own houses.
The Blood Red Dawn
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I don't think I could have looked dowdy, and among the dreadful old rags that the girls wear here.'
Celibates
14
The brightest colors in my box looked dowdy and dim, and I myself felt like an unwashed, unbrushed, unpresentable sloven.
After Dark
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They're afraid of looking dowdy and they're afraid of looking like fools, and there's just a narrow little space between the two.
Flesh and blood
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Her hair is dull and messy; beneath the hospital gown she is wearing an old blue lace-trimmed nightdress that looked dowdy when it was new.
Black house
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