You might wish her to look dowdy, but I do not.

I need a wardrobe that works for everything, yet doesn't look dowdy.

She did not want to look dowdy, nor suggestive.

Only I don't want to let you down by looking dowdy.

Their dream holding, he said, is "a small company in a basic industry, growing 10 percent annually, that looks dowdy because it's very financially conservative."

The last thing she wanted was to look plain and dowdy.

Just enough so I wouldn't look dowdy sitting in a club with flashy vampires.

Her things looked dowdy and old, out of place.

She looked plain and rather dowdy, like the woman I'd met on the carrier a few days ago.

The trees that line the center of Park Avenue looked dowdy without their lights on.