List of antonyms from "doubloon" to antonyms from "down-at-heel"


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Definition of the day : « dowdy »

  • adj poorly dressed; old-fashioned
Example sentences :
  • Henry perceived that his mother and his aunt were badly dressed—in truth, dowdy.
  • Extract from : « A Great Man » by Arnold Bennett
  • You know you wouldn't like it if I went about in dowdy old things.
  • Extract from : « Half a Hero » by Anthony Hope
  • A little girl in Punch improves on the talk of her dowdy mother with the maids.
  • Extract from : « The Children » by Alice Meynell
  • So that dowdy get-up is for my benefit, and is not habitual to her!
  • Extract from : « Man and Maid » by Elinor Glyn
  • Why do you hide your hair, and wear such a dowdy, high gown, Julia?
  • Extract from : « The Wolves and the Lamb » by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • A dowdy in sad-colored print or linsey is by no means to their taste.
  • Extract from : « Modern Women and What is Said of Them » by Anonymous
  • Dowdy in dress, and drooping, she showed to great disadvantage.
  • Extract from : « Sons and Lovers » by David Herbert Lawrence
  • She felt plain and dowdy beside them, and her spirits suffered in consequence.
  • Extract from : « Betty Trevor » by Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
  • So was Madeleine, though she had to sit most of the evening by the Princess—such a dowdy!
  • Extract from : « Democracy An American Novel » by Henry Adams
  • No, sir, I'm not going out a dowdy to please you or anybody else.
  • Extract from : « Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures » by Anonymous