The word "Dowdy" is correct in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone or something that is unfashionable or lacking in style.
Example: "She wore a dowdy dress that seemed out of place at the elegant party."
Alternatives: "Frumpy" or "Unfashionable."
Thus that inaugural series was played in dowdy whites with coloured stripes down the side.
And Hawes owns it, electrifying the screen precisely because she does it so downplayed and dowdy; her complex character has been mentioned in the same breath as The Killing's Sarah Lund.
Our future queen suddenly appeared rather dowdy in comparison with a number of high-profile women who are looking east for wardrobe inspiration as the Asian influence on fashion continues to grow.
GEOTHERMAL energy, long a poor relation among the more glamorous renewable technologies of wind and solar power, is poised to smarten its dowdy image.
If a company fails to get its designs and buying right, the damage is as serious as a brand being devalued by poorly made products, dowdy stores and a morose sales force though the reverse is also true.
And Carinthians, they say, have always taken pleasure in cocking a snook at those dowdy bureaucrats and grey politicians in the distant federal capital.Maybe so.
That lets it trumpet its achievements while deflecting blame for its shortcomings (such as its failure to honour a pledge to cut school class sizes), and still, just, to portray itself as an insurgent party rather than a dowdy incumbent.
It was defined by Yiddish, by Jewish newspapers, by the Farband, which provided such services as burial plans for families of immigrants, by left-wing politics and by dowdy, quixotic Camp Kinderwelt.
Mr Galliano is undoubtedly a talented designer who sprinkled Dior's once dowdy fashion house with pixie-dust.
Powerful businessmen who profited under Mr Mubarak also bear grudges, relentlessly reflected in the privately owned media that far outshine the Islamists' dowdy efforts at propaganda.The increasingly nasty war of words between Egypt's camps has turned politics into what Khalil Anani, an analyst, describes as a zero-sum game.
