Definitions
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- verb To make
dowdy ; to makeunfashionable .
Etymologies
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dowdy + -ify
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Dowd wasn't adroit enough to keep from getting caught chopping up quotes to distort their meaning, as she did with President Bush in 2003 - from which bloggers coined the term "dowdify".
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Dowd wasn't adroit enough to keep from getting caught chopping up quotes to distort their meaning, as she did with President Bush in 2003 - from which bloggers coined the term "dowdify".
Hot Air » Top Picks 2008
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dowdify v: to edit a quote so as to convey a different meaning from what was intended, primarily to damage the subject being quoted.
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