dowdily

1 She was a slender person, rather dowdily dressed as compared with her husband, with garments quite a little behind the prevailing mode.

2 Clinic workers in the early 20thcentury often dissuaded the poor and "unfit" from having children, so Millicent's sister Tilda advised her "to dress as dowdily as possible" so as not to stand out.

3 Bourbon and scrambled eggs for breakfast Upstairs in their dowdy suite at the old Boston RitzAs guests of Brahmin old-fart trusteesOf the Harvard Advocate, 1955 or maybe 1956.

4 J. Covey, St. Paul I kind of imagined that female politicians tended to dress dowdily because, um, they have more important things to think about over the course of a day.

5 Plaza Mexico’s parking lot was crowded on a recent day despite the retail center’s dowdy appearance.

6 They dressed too grandly in the street and too dowdily in the theatre.

7 She was so dowdily dressed, and her hair looked like a Feejee Islander's.

8 Who knew that enduring such abuse could turn this dowdy old maid into an unlikely local celebrity?

9 Cooks working for wealthy white families were made to wear dowdy uniforms despite their critical roles in shaping Southern foodways and culture.

10 The priest, Jean-Daniel Lafontant, had come from Haiti to help reopen the House of World Cultures, Berlin’s distinguished but dowdy center for non-European arts and ideas.

11 The two girls, I remember, were dressed exactly alike and very dowdily.

12 She played a dowdy old woman in the film.

13 Eco-friendly products were also available at the time, but they were expensive, dowdily packaged and often a lot less effective than the regular stuff.

14 The Borrodailes might dress as dowdily as they pleased, might speak as uncompromisingly as they felt inclined.

15 Some other women were there, mothers with young children, nurses and governesses dowdily dressed as she was in dark-coloured stuffs, but she knew none of them.

16 They dressed too grandly in the street and too dowdily in the theater.

17 Could he have seen, Carrados would have received the impression of a plainly, almost dowdily, dressed young woman of buxom figure.

18 They include some posed promo shots — including a hilarious one of the band Nation of Ulysses surrounded by dowdily uniformed girls at National Cathedral School — and offstage moments.

19 Her best friend Nancy might be the smart, popular high schooler we wish we were, but the bespectacled, dowdily dressed Barb is probably the teen we were.

20 Some Australian women disliked her "dowdily long" hem-lines - complaints echoed when she visited Canada later that year.

1 不整洁地

slovenly

2 懒散地

slovenly

3 邋遢

slatternly blowzed wild sleazy disheveled blowsy sluttish ticky-tacky scroungy raggedly scruffily scruffiness raggedness sluttery down at heel

4 过时地

belatedly

5 邋遢地

raggedly scruffily

6 不整洁

sloppy grubby unkempt untidy slouchy slovenly dowdy frowsy frowzy harum-scarum out at elbows

7 过时

back outdated obsolete old-fashioned dated out-of-date belated anachronistic outmoded threadbare antediluvian played-out outworn superannuated unhip demoded passé demode unmodish passée out belatedly obsolescence oldness fustiness date superannuate go out of fashion vieux jeu played out out of date