Crossword-Solution: DOWDY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dowdy | superl. | Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking. |
| Dowdy | n. | An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman. |
We have 70 clues for the answer “DOWDY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Outdated and untidy | 1 answer |
| Chic's opposite | 1 answer |
| Drab and old-fashioned | 1 answer |
| Drab; not stylish | 1 answer |
| Like stereotypical schoolmarms | 1 answer |
| Not stylish | 1 answer |
| Not well dressed | 1 answer |
| Old-fashioned in attire | 1 answer |
| Wearing frumpy clothes | 1 answer |
| Unattractively old-fashioned | 1 answer |
| nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game | 1 answer |
| Unsexy | 2 answers |
| draggletailed | 3 answers |
| Far from chic | 3 answers |
| Not fashionable | 4 answers |
| unaesthetic | 4 answers |
| draggletail | 4 answers |
| Hardly hip | 5 answers |
| Old fashioned | 22 answers |
| unsmart | 25 answers |
| Old-fashioned | 28 answers |
| Tawdry | 31 answers |
| homely | 42 answers |
| slatternly | 45 answers |
| frumpish | 46 answers |
| Mangy | 47 answers |
| Sleazy | 49 answers |
| pokey | 49 answers |
| frumpy | 49 answers |
| Tatty | 49 answers |
| rubbishy | 51 answers |
| Ratty | 51 answers |
| anachronous | 52 answers |
| Unbecoming | 53 answers |
| unstylish | 53 answers |
| Indigent | 55 answers |
| Bedraggled | 56 answers |
| Torn | 56 answers |
| belated | 56 answers |
| Superannuated | 56 answers |
| frowzy | 56 answers |
| Vintage | 60 answers |
| unfashionable | 60 answers |
| outdated | 61 answers |
| unattractive | 61 answers |
| Worn | 62 answers |
| Outmoded | 62 answers |
| Bygone | 62 answers |
| Obsolete | 63 answers |
| seedy | 63 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DOWDY (5)
She wore a large, dowdy hat of black beaver, and a sort of slightly affected simple dress that made her look rather sack-like.
Some of them were dressed fashionably, and they said they couldn’t for the life of them see why you should be dowdy just because you had written a novel; if you had a neat figure you might as well make the most of it, and a smart shoe on a small foot had never prevented an editor from taking your “stuff.” But others thought this frivolous, and they wore “art fabrics” and barbaric jewelry.
Then, drawing back with a little smile of warning—“I shall look hideous in dowdy clothes; but I can trim my own hats,” she declared.
With a little trimming and a new white vest it would look as good as new, and it is really very dowdy." "You were quite late upon the lawn," said the inexorable Clara.
But never have I seen a bride so utterly oblivious to clothes as Marie was till one day in despair I told her that Cyril never could bear a dowdy woman.” “As if Cyril, in the old days, ever could bear any sort of woman!” scoffed Bertram, merrily.
Quotes with DOWDY (3)
He noticed that he felt calmer now she was here, still in that grey dress with her dowdy hat, the air around her redolent with orchid oil. Perhaps all women in England had this effect. Perhaps they all smelled of flowers and exuded a calm and measured purpose. He couldn’t remember.
No one noticed them step off the train, no one saw them arrive in Desolation Road . . . . Then something very much like a sustained explosion of light filled the hotel and there, at the epicenter of the glare, was the most beautiful woman anyone had ever seen. Every man in the room had to swallow hard. Every woman fought an inexpressible need to sigh. A dozen hearts cracked down the middle and all the love flew out like larks and circled round the incredible being. It was as …
... it is shameful that there are so few women in science... In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This is the fault of men. In Chinese society, a woman is valued for what she is, and men encourage her to accomplishments yet she remains eternally feminine.
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1986–2024).