Dowdy in a sentence as a noun

I hate it. It feels like a dowdy piece of abandonware.

I suppose in a land where Netflix can make its own movies, HBO is positively dowdy.

Pennys, was so un-hip it almost became hip, but it rightly so had a image of dowdy women wearing housecoats shopping on a Tuesday.

Dowdy in a sentence as an adjective

It may be because in an information society the entire concept of a national identity is dowdy and uncalled for.

Rooms were shared, walls were cinderblock, the student center consisted of a dowdy cafeteria, a punk rock radio station, rooms for concerts/lectures/films, and small stinky rooms for student-run clubs.

A 1960s or 1970s recording from the "dawn" of tapes, a crackly recording of a woman in a mental hospital speaking in a distant place in a foreign language is extremely evocative, a far better story than a study at a dowdy chemical research lab in a flyover town.

Dowdy definitions

noun

British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970)

See also: Dowding Dowdy

noun

deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust

See also: pandowdy

adjective

lacking in smartness or taste; "a dowdy grey outfit"; "a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room"

adjective

primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game"

See also: frumpy frumpish