dowdiness

She'd always been rather notorious for her dowdiness, you know.

She offered box shapes, but managed to spare them from dowdiness.

Wearing this year's style with the footwear of another era is a sure road to dowdiness.

Though what she felt threatened her pale beauty in my lengthy dowdiness I failed to see.

Guests expecting a highly polished inn might be taken aback by the dowdiness.

Gilt furniture and ornate objects helped overcome the usual dowdiness.

This introduces the longer look without dowdiness.

Sister Georgia seemed to delight in dowdiness.

And if the neighborhood's general dowdiness did not bespeak hard times, the Salvation Army center a few doors away would.

She appears to demurely hide her natural assets or perhaps even imply genteel dowdiness.

A kind of nominal dowdiness is being pursued within the general context of lustrous beauty.

Dowdiness, of a sort, has always been prized in a town where fondness for European, or even Northern, habits is seen as suspicious.

I think it's their dowdiness.

Dowdiness - pleated trousers, boxy jackets, garments resembling blankets - prevailed.

For all the dowdiness that surrounds it, Mosaica has a clean, airy, well-lighted look.

We call the Beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good, and the heartlessness of the true.

She argues that the dowdiness feeds into the "belief that intellectual women aren't stylish or fashionable or beautiful."

Many of the new pieces were hiply unhip - or what might be called the new dowdiness.

"It has an inherent dowdiness to it, but he made it look respectable, like somehow he turned his grandmother into a fashion model."

Beatrice Webb described her as a 'gentle-tempered intelligent woman who keeps me company in the dowdiness of her dress'.

Was this the way Emily had mastered her deception, by trying on mismatched hair and outfits until she had achieved the requisite dowdiness?

There was a droop to her shoulders, a dowdiness that seemed as much innate as due to her age or the cut of her clothes.

At the very least, he was learning that for some Western women-even pious ones-middle age needn't necessarily mean dowdiness, torpor, or capitulation.

Butlins may have rebuilt itself, but the rest of the town, however sunkissed, remains an enclave of dowdiness.

The 1940's dowdiness of their spring collection had vanished, replaced by a tasteful sexiness that made you want almost all the clothes that went by.