| 单词 | dowdily |
| 例句 | They include some posed promo shots — including a hilarious one of the band Nation of Ulysses surrounded by dowdily uniformed girls at National Cathedral School — and offstage moments. Review | In the galleries: Works draw on feeling, seeing and a penchant for jazz 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Clinic workers in the early 20thcentury often dissuaded the poor and "unfit" from having children, so Millicent's sister Tilda advised her "to dress as dowdily as possible" so as not to stand out. The symbolic use of barrier contraceptives in literature goes far beyond control 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z Exotically eastern, I thought, was probably better than dowdily midwestern. I lied about living in New York to fit into the literary bubble - not anymore 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Her best friend Nancy might be the smart, popular high schooler we wish we were, but the bespectacled, dowdily dressed Barb is probably the teen we were. Farewell to #Justice4Barb, Stranger Things’ most enduring meme 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Eco-friendly products were also available at the time, but they were expensive, dowdily packaged and often a lot less effective than the regular stuff. Green wash 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z She was so dowdily dressed, and her hair looked like a Feejee Islander's. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z Some Australian women disliked her "dowdily long" hem-lines - complaints echoed when she visited Canada later that year. Three royal women and their dresses 2011-07-05T01:00:57Z Could he have seen, Carrados would have received the impression of a plainly, almost dowdily, dressed young woman of buxom figure. Max Carrados 2010-12-24T03:00:32.117Z For long he hesitated to assume the famous periwig; for a public man should travel gravely with the fashions, not foppishly before, nor dowdily behind, the central movement of his age. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) Some other women were there, mothers with young children, nurses and governesses dowdily dressed as she was in dark-coloured stuffs, but she knew none of them. Olive in Italy They dressed too grandly in the street and too dowdily in the theatre. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 The Borrodailes might dress as dowdily as they pleased, might speak as uncompromisingly as they felt inclined. The Convert It seems to me that if I were so poor that I had to 'room' myself and dress as dowdily as she does that I really couldn't look anybody in the face. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 For long he hesitated to assume the famous periwig; for a public man should travel gravely with his fashions, not foppishly before, nor dowdily behind, the central movement of his age. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American The women, most of them very handsome, were dressed dowdily in mackinaws and anomalous foot covering. Judith of the Godless Valley She was a slender person, rather dowdily dressed as compared with her husband, with garments quite a little behind the prevailing mode. The Nervous Housewife The two girls, I remember, were dressed exactly alike and very dowdily. What I Remember, Volume 2 They dressed too grandly in the street and too dowdily in the theater. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections For long he hesitated to assume the famous periwig; for a public man should travel gravely with the fashions not foppishly before, nor dowdily behind, the central movement of his age. Familiar Studies of Men and Books Josephine let down her back hair dowdily, partook recklessly of poetry and pickles, read inordinately in bed,—leaning all night on her elbow,—and was threatened with spinal curvature and spiritualism. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 Some of the women dressed, perhaps, a little dowdily; not all of them young and beautiful. All Roads Lead to Calvary |
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