Usually means: Dressed in an unfashionable manner.
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  1. dowdily: Merriam-Webster
  2. dowdily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dowdily: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dowdily: Vocabulary.com
  5. dowdily: Wordnik
  6. dowdily: Wiktionary
  7. dowdily: Dictionary.com
  8. dowdily: Rhymezone
  9. dowdily: FreeDictionary.org
  10. dowdily: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. dowdily: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adverb:  In a dowdy manner

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frumpishly, frumpily, downily, drably, dingily, tawdrily, dottily, fuddy-duddily, drearily, duskily, more...

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frumpishly, frumpily, downily, drably, dingily, tawdrily, dottily, fuddy-duddily, drearily, duskily, more...



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