dowdily

He rang the bell; after a long time the door was opened to him by a young woman, plainly, rather dowdily dressed.

She was dressed dowdily and was rather unremarkable in appearance.

The women might have been pretty if they had dressed less dowdily and paid more attention to their hair and make-up.

She had mousy hair, thick glasses, stained teeth and was dowdily dressed.

Ginny had seen these "good" women, dowdily dressed in ugly, old-fashioned clothes, looking much older than they could possibly have been.

Dowdily dressed and gravel-voiced, he is as close to affectlessness as anyone who I can remember running for high office.

Willow is presented as a bookish nerd with considerable computer skills, dowdily dressed and easily intimidated by more popular girls in school.

The rest of the week Montoire squats rather dowdily underneath the ruins of the chateau.

Dowdily, Lord and Lady Pauncefote arrived, an equally dowdy daughter in tow.

I never knew that American women dressed so old fashionedly and so dowdily, before I discovered this Blog that is.

Dressed dowdily in the countrified clothes of 1920's England, Dawn Upshaw moves through the opera's nine scenes as their moral voice and indirect commentator.

She encounters the same problem at her first few job interviews - the men are interested in something other than her secretarial skills - so she dresses as dowdily as she can and gets hired by Joseph Morton (George Murphy).

After so many flamboyant, cape-wearing vampires swashbuckling about Transylvania, it's vaguely refreshing to meet a Dracula who is shy, intellectual and dowdily dressed, and we're curious to see how this mild-mannered nerd will become, or be revealed as, the evil, blood-drinking Count.

The office secretary, Miss Spencer, who works for both men, starts the play as a shy drab and dowdily dressed spinster, but when Bloome gains his undeserved reputation and she herself is smitten by him, she also starts to blossom seemingly unnoticed.