Those dancing next to her in the line always felt dowdy by comparison.

She made Teresa feel overdressed and dowdy, but not resentful.

I always feel small and dowdy when she comes along.

As time for the Christmas party approached, I began to feel really old and dowdy.

Iris, in her pink sundress and white shoes left over from last summer, felt suddenly dowdy.

Even so, I felt dowdy in my plain old pinafore dress.

The fear is that we'll be made to feel frumpy and dowdy by the sleek, hip staff.

She got into the gown, feeling plump and dowdy and at a complete disadvantage.

Emma would have felt quite dowdy in her plain Paragons outfit, if she'd ever thought about such things.

She suddenly felt dowdy, though the host was only fifteen years old in real terms.