Dowdy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DOWDY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a woman who wears unstylish clothes, also DOWD
• An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman.
• British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970)
• deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust
• dowdy woman
ADJECTIVE:
• dressed unstylishly
• (of a person or their clothes) unfashionable and unstylish in appearance (typically used of a woman)
• dull and old-fashioned
• lacking in smartness or taste
• primly out of date
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• lacking in stylishness or neatness
• a dowdy woman

Words related to DOWDY

dowdier12 dowdies12 dowdiest13 dowdily15 dowdiness14 dowdyish19 dowdyism18

Words that contain DOWDY

dowdyish19 dowdyism18 pandowdy18 dowdyisms19

How to use DOWDY in a sentence

• She wears her new gown in a dowdy manner and one can read her face easily.
• Our Court set is dowdy, dull to a degree, and common in a different fashion.
• A few of them are dowdy and good, but by far the greater number are graceful and wicked.
• The music-lovers were mostly dowdy in their attire, and seemed a race apart.
• It appears it is easier to get them off if they are quiet looking and dowdy, but not so aggressive as Victorine.
• A shabby little old man, a young plump, but very pretty female figure in unusually short petticoats, and a dowdy old charwoman, all stood in the door among a riot of dogs.
• The Lady Blanche, at least once in the autumn, rode up, alighted, and drank one glass of the home-made wine with the dowdy.
• As a rule people look dowdy after being up all night.
• It is the rarest of sights to see a real Melbourne girl look dowdy.
• If the offender had been old and dowdy, every one would have grumbled angrily at the bother and delay, but as it was, men grinned and women were tolerant.
• She removed her dowdy black dress, and, opening a drawer in her wardrobe, took out a soft gray silk which lay folded between tissue paper and sprigs of lavender.
• The worst of Paris is that, once you have had it, everything else seems dowdy.
• The next night, Saturday the 25th, Washington was taken to the place where Dowdy was killed and his body shot to pieces.
• It was a grand and inspiring sensation to swing through Hammersmith thus aristocratically repudiating the dowdy Sunday crowd that stared in ingenuous curiosity.
• Equally exhilarating was the capricious favouring of the dull and dowdy on occasions when the brilliant and disreputable expected his notice.
• A secretary of legation in a small foreign capital cannot do with a dowdy wife, as may a clerk, for instance, in the Foreign Office.
• Generally, too, they had one dowdy English aspect, and a vulgar type of features so nearly alike that they seemed literally to constitute a sisterhood.
• Stew to-night! An amused gleam, lost upon the dowdy passage, fled across her bright eyes.
• Wrenching her mind away from apprehensiveness she moved quickly to the kitchen door and into the dimly-lighted dowdy passage-way.
• Looking through the dowdy wardrobe from Angouleme, she found nothing better than a certain green velvet gown, trimmed fantastically enough.

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