Crossword clues for dowdiness
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.
Wiktionary
n. The characteristic of being dowdy; frumpiness; plainness.
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.