(superl.) Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking.
(n.) An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) This mixture (also called Innovar) is rapid in action and results in complete suppression of vestibular activity of both normal subjects and those with Ménière's disease as described by Dowdy, et al., in a preliminary report.
(2) Its flagship store on Regent Street had the air of a venerable institution - dowdy, British, heedless of what was going on outside its own doors.
(3) Now, a two-year refurbishment has transformed a dowdy labyrinth with state-of-the-art lighting, subtle wall colouring and a clever choice of paintings.
(4) When I was a boy London was a dowdy place of tea-houses and stale rock cakes where everybody spoke English.
(5) New branches of the Women’s Institute , hitherto firmly associated in the national imagination with the dowdy, jam-making elders of rural communities, began to be founded by thirtysomethings in fashionable urban neighbourhoods.
(6) But it’s not easy to juggle style and substance in politics, as Martinez discovered when he looked to Capitol Hill for wardrobe inspiration and came up short, discovering that a deliberate dowdiness pervades real-life DC wardrobes .
(7) Though the elderly Victoria came to symbolise a dowdy puritanism, the early years of her reign were marked by scandal and assassination attempts.
(8) It’s a once-glorious, now-dowdy thoroughfare with a few refulgent granite buildings surrounded by an excess of eyesores.
(9) She's said in the past that she did it to avoid being typecast after a succession of dowdy roles, which makes some kind of sense.
(10) I hated it,” wrote Katharine Graham , whose family owned the paper for 80 years , deriding it as “plain, dowdy and full of compromises”.
(11) The two-year refurbishment has transformed a dowdy labyrinth with state-of-the-art lighting and a clever choice of paintings.
(12) Martinez admitted it was a challenge: “The clothes were semi-fitted, not supposed to be sexy, just tailored – but Julia is naturally sexy, so it sometimes came off that way.” Essentially, Hollywood’s version of "dowdy" isn’t dowdy at all, but we applaud Martinez’s efforts.
(13) In a newly released Old Spice commercial , a collection of pathetic, dowdy, genderless "momcreatures" stalk their sons on dates and other encounters with young women.
(14) Google of course has considerably more resources than dowdy data protection offices and, as the court recognised, a significant influence on the lives of many individuals.
(15) But theimage of electric vehicles as dowdy "Noddy" cars has begun to change, due to luxury electric sports cars such as California's Tesla Roadster and the British-designed Lightning GT.
(16) When the Beveridge Report, which laid the foundations for the welfare state, was published in 1942, it sold a third of a million copies, dowdy official report though it might have been.
Downy
Definition:
(a.) Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs.
(a.) Made of, or resembling, down. Hence, figuratively: Soft; placid; soothing; quiet.
(a.) Cunning; wary.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have used bulked segregant analysis to identify three random amplified polymorphic DNA markers in lettuce linked to a gene for resistance to downy mildew.
(2) Downie holds that there is nothing to distinguish the doctor or lawyer from other occupations in terms of the criteria of self-interest and altruism.
(3) Of the three main groups of pesticides (insecticides, fungicides and herbicides), fungicides have probably the longest history, dating back to the accidental discovery in 1882 of Bordeaux mixture and the value of copper-based preparations for the control of vine downy mildew disease.
(4) Babesia moshkovskiiwas found in the blood of 6 of 30 downy (D) Prairie Falcons and in none of 5 adults (A) from Wyoming.
(5) A population of Arabidopsis thaliana growing locally in a suburb of Zürich called Weiningen was observed to be infected with downy mildew.
(6) John Downie, director of public affairs at SCVO, said: "We know that the top 20% of income earners are the most likely to vote, and as many as half of people in the bottom 20% don't vote.
(7) Downie concluded that the clamp-down was making it more difficult for the press to hold government accountable for its actions.
(8) In his report, Downie chronicled the Obama administration's use of the 1917 Espionage Act to prosecute leakers, and its development of a programme that requires government employees in every department to help prevent leaks to the press by monitoring the behaviour of their colleagues.
(9) John Downie, the SCVO's director of public affairs, said it welcomed Labour's plans to increase the powers and independence of local councils but said the party was resisting "the radical changes which are desperately needed to meet the aspirations of the Scottish people".
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Common loon ( Gavia immer ) with downy young riding on back, in a Matanuska Valley lake, Alaska.
(11) Rod Downie, polar expert at WWF-UK said: "With the speed of change we are now witnessing in the Arctic, the UK government must show national and global leadership in the urgent transition away from fossil fuels to a low carbon economy.
(12) CPJ’s critical appraisal of the NSA’s mass surveillance comes hard on the heels of a special report it published last October in which the former Washington Post editor Leonard Downie accused the Obama administration of blasting a chill through US journalism through its aggressive pursuit of official leakers.
(13) The colony texture of these mutants was downy and their mycelium sterile.
(14) #AustinJacksonStirkesOut 11.50pm BST Athletics 3 - Tigers 3, top of the 6th And then Reddick grounds out to second and that's shut-downy enough for Tigers fans who give him an ovation as his night is most likely over.
(15) Goats that have been selected for production of this fine, downy undercoat are referred to as "Cashmere" goats.
(16) According to Sky Sports News reporter Keith Downie , who is at Sunderland's training ground , John O'Shea just drove out of the car-park, rolled down his window and shouted "WES BROWN TO REAL MADRID!"
(17) All the canvases feature babies: gurgling smiles, downy hair, chubby wrists.
(18) Ellie Downie, from Nottingham, was only nine when her sister, Becky, a gymnast, made her Olympic debut in Beijing in 2008.
(19) A random cDNA clone was identified as distinguishing near-isogenic lines for downy mildew resistance in lettuce.
(20) The NSW party president, Chris Downy, is the chief executive officer of the Australian Wagering Council which lobbies on behalf of the online gambling industry.