Definition of Dowdyism

1. the wearing of unstylish clothes [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dowdyism

dowd
dowdier
dowdies
dowdiest
dowdified
dowdifies
dowdify
dowdifying
dowdily
dowdiness
dowdinesses
dowds
dowdy
dowdyish
dowdyism (current term)
dowdyisms
dowed
dowel
dowel pin
doweled
doweling
dowelled
dowelling
dowels
dower
dowered
doweries
dowering
dowerless

Literary usage of Dowdyism

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

1. Passages from My Autobiography by Morgan (Sydney) (1859)
"This morning, as I was on my knees, all dust and dowdyism, comes the English post— old Colburn—no ! not old at all, but young enthusiastic Colburn, ..."

2. England Without & Within by Richard Grant White (1881)
"No one in England seems to be careless about anything, least of all a woman about her dress. It is helpless, hopeless, elaborated dowdyism. ..."

3. The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton by Isabel Burton (1893)
"Les Italiens ' bears the palm of dowdyism, and actors and actresses seem to have decayed with the decorations. The cuisine, except in special instances, ..."

4. An Englishwoman in Utah: The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism by T. B. H. Stenhouse (1880)
"... plicity of dress almost to the verge of dowdyism, have now acquired a taste for Eastern fashions. The Prophet's first home in Utah was a little cottage ..."

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