Sentence example with the word 'dowdiness'

dowdiness

Definition n. having a drab or dowdy quality

Last update: September 6, 2015


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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.   [Please select]

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"Why, nothing--self-respect, dowdiness, and peace."   [Please select]

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Only in a certain lack of elegance in gesture, and in the unshaven dowdiness of the ground on which it was played, could this game be said to be inferior to the noble spectacle of cricket.   [Please select]

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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.   [Please select]

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