Definition of Dowdiest

1. Adjective. (superlative of dowdy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dowdiest

1. dowdy [adj] - See also: dowdy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dowdiest

dow
dowable
dowager
dowager's hump
dowager's humps
dowagerism
dowagerlike
dowagers
dowagers' humps
dowar
dowars
dowd
dowdier
dowdies
dowdiest (current term)
dowdified
dowdifies
dowdify
dowdifying
dowdily
dowdiness
dowdinesses
dowds
dowdy
dowdyish
dowdyism
dowdyisms
dowed
dowel

Literary usage of Dowdiest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Confederate Girl's Diary by Sarah Morgan Dawson (1913)
"This carriage was a very fine one, and in it sat three of the ugliest, dowdiest, worst dressed females I ever saw. We three girls sat in our rough carriage ..."

2. The Elements of Architecture by Henry Wotton (1903)
"... or by his own Text (which in that very place, where perchance he should be clearest, is of all other the dowdiest) hee meaneth nothing by Ordination, ..."

3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1885)
"Yet all through the voyage he was content to be seen in a flannel shirt without a collar, the dowdiest of ..."

4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1904)
"The guests' galleries soon filled up, the smartest toilettes mingling with the homeliest and dowdiest. All leant forward eagerly to inspect ..."

5. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1873)
"ALL was utterly in vain, as futile as Lady Bell's dressing herself in her dowdiest clothes with her shabbiest, least "setting" top-knots. ..."

6. At Anchor: A Story of Our Civil War by American (1865)
"... dowdiest, stupidest mortal in existence. She denounced my grandest dresses as " frights," and my way of wearing my hair she regarded as " too shocking ..."

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