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单词 dowdiness
例句 dowdiness
Like I said, it's slow and, Richardson aside, the entire cast seems to have been hired on the strength of their dowdiness. Jonathan Bernstein's Aerial View of American TV 2010-08-20T23:09:00Z
As I clung to their every word, the stories taught me that other girls could not be trusted and that unpopularity, dowdiness and fatness were essentially worse than death. How the Clique Books Taught Me to Hate Other Girls and Myself 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z
Whatever the particulars, the calculation is the same — a belief that many diners are eager to dress up again after an epoch of record-level dowdiness. Leave the Sweatshirt at Home. Dining Dress Codes Are Back. 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z
Describing the relationship between Rachel and Tom, Ms. Lizzimore, speaking by telephone from London, used the word “dogged” then apologized for the word’s dowdiness. Rebecca Hall and Morgan Spector: Together, Onstage and Off 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z
In a country where women’s fashions were long frozen in Soviet-style dowdiness, men watched intently as Pak strode through the library in her tight skirt, heels clacking on the concrete floors. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z
Though she is young—her body lithe, her skin smooth—Diamond’s bearing suggests a slight dowdiness, of the sort one might encounter in stock images labelled “motherhood.” The Women Who Mother Lifelike Baby Dolls 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z
Isolated from the group of other local women, who are judgmental and close ranks against her for no reason other than her quietness and awkward dowdiness, Betty is shown mostly alone with an infant. What does "The Shining" have to do with Hulu's "Candy"? 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z
Modest fashion might come across as a humblebrag: You have to be a pretty stylish, pretty good-looking woman to claim ownership of such radical dowdiness. Modest Dressing, as a Virtue 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z
In recent years, the street has become a meeting place of ornate style and fashion swagger, lifting itself out of a few decades of dowdiness to become Glasgow’s answer to the Boulevard Raspail. Glasgow’s Elegant Ingram Street 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z
The Pavilion of George the Fourth was the last word in gorgeousness of his time, but it wears an old-maidish appearance of dowdiness in midst of the Brighton of the twentieth century. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z
Miss Savage, he says, was short, fat, had hip disease, and "that kind of dowdiness which I used to associate with ladies who had been at school with my mother." Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z
A little experience will reconcile the stranger to the general dowdiness of house exteriors, when he learns that the English climate has caused the English people to think most of the home within. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z
She is the kind of thing who goes with dowdiness. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z
She was an unusual figure, too, though he could not have said why, except that her dress seemed to recall bygone fashions quaintly, though without a hint of dowdiness or affectation. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece
Rachel, as she said this, abandoned for the moment her look against the wall, and shook herself instantly free of all her dowdiness. The Landleaguers
The thing to remark here, as well as in all the gatherings of the people of this city, was the absence of dinginess and dowdiness that goes with poverty. Westward with the Prince of Wales
First of all, Daphne looks ever so much better when she's dressed really simply, not the latest fashion; on the very verge of dowdiness! The Limit
She knew who had transformed Mattie’s dowdiness into comeliness and neatness. Not Like Other Girls
Perhaps the presence of the fashionably-dressed woman seated there—a person so evidently out of harmony with her surroundings—helped her to see the familiar dowdiness with other eyes. A Sheaf of Corn
Her clothes were good and new, but some desolate dressmaker had contrived to invest them with an air of hopeless dowdiness. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol
"Attractively dressed" is a phrase to note; there are no rags or dowdiness in Canada. Westward with the Prince of Wales
"And then she will shake off her dowdiness and her gloom together," said Mrs Mackenzie. Miss Mackenzie
“Miss Drummond is not so bad, after all, is she, in spite of her dowdiness and fussy ways?” Not Like Other Girls
And so, in spite of everything, poverty, dowdiness, obscurity, and nothingness, she was content to stay in abeyance at home for the time. The Lost Girl
Nor is there the slightest need that this kind of dressing involve “dowdiness,” or “slouchiness,” a characteristic abhorrent to every true woman. The Education of American Girls
There was nothing of the dowdiness of the lone lorn woman about her, none of that lanky, washed-out appearance which sorrow and trouble so often give to females. Orley Farm
One knows that it doesn't mean much; but it's like artificial flowers,—it gives a little colour, and takes off the dowdiness. Can You Forgive Her?
If one leaves the officers, who are a fine, upstanding, well-groomed lot, out of the account, the inhabitants of Berlin are almost grotesque in their dowdiness. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View
I don't recall anything in Holy Writ that seems to require dowdiness as necessary to salvation. August First
Then all at once she came upon Lydia Orr, in her simple white dress, made with an elegant simplicity which convicted every girl in the room of dowdiness. An Alabaster Box
There is none of the hopeless dowdiness and dejection that characterize the lower order of Englishwoman. Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future
The dowdy woman doesn't realize the degree of her own dowdiness, but she knows that her neighbor is well-gowned, and she envies her with a vague and pathetic envy. The House in Good Taste
At one side Mrs. Benham conversed in melancholic monotones with two elderly French ladies who were clad in depressing black of a dowdiness surpassed only in English provincial towns. Jason
She suddenly contrasted Julian's heavy and arrogant dowdiness with the nice dandyism of Louis. The Price of Love
Twelve years should not have changed a pretty blonde thing of nineteen to a worn, unintelligent-looking dowdy of the order of dowdiness which seems to have lived beyond age and sex. The Shuttle
She felt that she must rise to the situation, must teach herself, must save herself from impending dowdiness and slovenliness. The Price She Paid
There was none of the occasional shabbiness or dowdiness of Michigan Avenue. Fanny Herself
She would like him better if he wore coloured neckties and a short jacket; she wished half of him away—his dowdiness, his sandy-coloured hair, the vague eyes, the black neckties, the long loose frock-coat. Esther Waters
For nothing is lost by looking nice; indeed it is one's duty to be smart, lest dowdiness should give him the impression that England really is suffering from the War. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 19, 1917
Back of the telephone was a long mirror that reflected their pretty smartness and Felicia's impossible dowdiness. Little Miss By-The-Day
And it's always the poor, impressionable New Yorker who says it, the fellow who has to put up with the depressing homeliness and dowdiness of Fifth Avenue. Her Weight in Gold
It divested her of that dowdiness which she feared above all things, and enabled her to hold her own among other young women, without feeling that she was absolutely destitute of attraction. He Knew He Was Right
There had, too, fallen upon her in these her married days a certain fixed dreary dowdiness. The Small House at Allington
She was neat where Anna had been disorderly, well dressed and breezy against Anna's dowdiness and sharpness. The Street of Seven Stars
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