| 词汇 | dowdy |
| 释义 | dowdy adjective disapprovinguk /ˈdaʊ.di/ us /ˈdaʊ.di/ (especially of clothes or the person wearing them) not attractive or fashionable: （尤指衣服或穿此类衣服的人）土气的，过时的，不时髦的 a dowdy skirt过时的裙子 She looked dowdy and plain.她看起来既土气又不起眼。 Synonyms frowzydisapproving frumpydisapproving Opposite glamorous Not attractive to look at back end be no oil paintingidiom be not much to look atidiom bleakly bleakness gracelessly have a face like the back end of a busidiom hideous hideousness homeliness putridly reptilian scrappily scrappy stolid unpretty unshapely unsightly vulgarity vulgarly dowdy | American Dictionarydowdy adjective us/ˈdɑʊ·di/ (esp. of clothes or the person wearing them) unattractive and not stylish, often because of being old-fashioned Examples of dowdydowdy At the same time, he had to monitor fashion changes, lest he become old-fashioned and dowdy instead of an unapproachable, icy ideal. By then the glass-walled aquaria may seem but dowdy relics of a passing fashion of the sixties. An important point is that the cover and print are dowdy and there were virtually no diagrams to heighten interest. The accommodation had become a dowdy barracks stuck out along a back lane that wandered off from the edge of suburbia to the fields and agriculture. We all know that many are run down and dowdy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why should the great mass of our working women be compelled to be dowdy and frowsy? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course, nobody wants to see in the shops packages which are dowdy, unattractive and unhygienic. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They exist only in drab, dreary, dowdy streets. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We can never be great if we have a dowdy educational system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People do not want to walk into a dowdy-looking post office, on which no money has been spent for years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have a great tradition of adult education in this country, but we have to be careful that it does not become a little dowdy and mouldy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now the building might be described as a dowdy and dirty edition of its former self, and there is an air around the place that nobody really cares. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Everyone recognises that many urban sub-post offices are much too dowdy, but the key to improving standards in them will be the increased volume of business that they can expect. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Apple pan dowdy most commonly features a pie crust, which is broken (dowdied) before serving. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Apple pan dowdy is an apple cobbler whose crust has been broken and perhaps stirred back into the filling. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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