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  • adjective comparative form of dowdy: more dowdy

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Examples

  • Can anything be dowdier than the layered tee shirts combined of muddy green, muddy gray, and dirt colored over blouse?

    Blue Dress Painting 2009

  • But that approach isn't likely to work with Penney's much larger product assortment and dowdier past, which present fresh challenges.

    New Penney CEO Is Tapping Former Apple Co-Workers Dana Mattioli 2011

  • Can any thing be dowdier than the goon looking hoodie?

    Blue Dress Painting 2009

  • Can any thing be dowdier than the whale but with the wide belt going around it, or the bare muffin top on the too tight low cut jeans?

    Blue Dress Painting 2009

  • I saw several comments about dowdy dresses being discouraging, but can a dress, any dress, be any dowdier than a pair of dirty jeans with frayed cuffs dragging on the floor picking up dust, with the clunky horrid dirty sports shoes?

    Blue Dress Painting 2009

  • Ruis is behind the shake-up that has replaced the retailer's dowdier lines with sought-after high street and designer names such as Mint Velvet and Denmark's Bruuns Bazaar.

    John Lewis profits bounce back as store defies gloomy climate 2010

  • And I recall that an even dowdier Arkansan who had been Deputy Attorney General of the United States actually went to jail for violating federal criminal law.

    Balkinization 2007

  • And I recall that an even dowdier Arkansan who had been Deputy Attorney General of the United States actually went to jail for violating federal criminal law.

    Balkinization 2007

  • And I recall that an even dowdier Arkansan who had been Deputy Attorney General of the United States actually went to jail for violating federal criminal law.

    Balkinization 2007

  • And I recall that an even dowdier Arkansan who had been Deputy Attorney General of the United States actually went to jail for violating federal criminal law.

    Balkinization 2007

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