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Lacking stylishness or neatness
Answer for the clue "Lacking stylishness or neatness ", 9 letters:
dowdiness
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The characteristic of being dowdy; frumpiness; plainness.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dowdy \Dow"dy\, a. [Compar. Dowdier ; superl. Dowdiest .] [Scot. dawdie slovenly, daw, da sluggard, drab, Prov. E. dowd flat, dead.] Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking. -- Dow"di*ly , adv. -- Dow"di*ness , n.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. lacking stylishness or neatness [syn: drabness , homeliness ]
Usage examples of dowdiness.
She was dressed with an aggressive dowdiness: shapeless long frock, button shoes, wide brimmed flower covered hat, fur neckpiece and gloves.
Irene’s evening dress was much too vivid, too personal, too fashionable for the subtly calculated dowdiness of a Laurel House dinner.
Those who looked at Sharpe seemed to show a mixture of surprise and pity at his dowdiness, as though a bedraggled fighting cock had somehow found its way into a peacock's pen.