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Definition of Dowdily
1. Adverb. In a dowdy unfashionable manner. "She dresses dowdily"
Definition of Dowdily
1. Adverb. In a dowdy manner ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dowdily
1. dowdy [adv] - See also: dowdy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dowdily
Literary usage of Dowdily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travelling Sketches by Anthony Trollope (1866)
"If she is minded to end dowdily, she will begin dowdily. But the trouble of such
continued care is too much for an English girl. ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1890)
"I remember when he came to us last year that I went down in company with others,
I am afraid rather dowdily dressed, to meet him, and could not help looking ..."
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