dowdy

adj.

1. 缺乏魅力的；不时髦的；过时的
   not attractive or fashionable
2. 单调的；不雅致的；不美观的
   dull or boring and not attractive
   1. a dowdy dress
      单调的连衣裙

1. ADJ-GRADED (人或衣着)单调的，土气的，不时髦的
   If you describe someone or their clothes as dowdy, you mean their clothes are dull and unfashionable.
   1. ...playing hostess to a lot of officials and their dowdy wives...
      接待众多官员及他们衣着落伍的夫人
   2. Her clothes were clean but dowdy.
      她衣着整洁但有点土气。

1. Her clothes were clean but dowdy.
   她衣着整洁但有点土气。
2. She makes me feel dowdy and ugly.
   她让我自惭形秽。
3. DAVID DOWDY: "These tests are actively doing people harm by causing them either to take medicines that they don't need or delaying the diagnosis that they actually do need, to get better."
   大卫·道狄：“这些检查会促成对人的伤害，或是通过让他们服用根本不需要的药物，或者是延误了本来必需的诊断，耽误了那些对他们更有益处的治疗。”
4. In a dream sequence, from a forthcoming episode in the show's final season called Million Dollar Smile, the much loved character finally loses her braces and shakes off her dowdy image.
   在“百万美元微笑”这一集，我们的女主角终于摘掉牙套，和那个土气又寒酸的形象说拜拜了。
5. With long grey hair, wrinkles and dowdy clothes, the beautiful actress is barely recognisable.
   这一头白发，一脸皱纹，一身邋遢的衣服，美艳性感的大明星完全判若两人。
6. With Herrera's tasteful treatment, though, there was nothing ditzy, dated or dowdy on her runway Monday, even if the bold flowers themselves were inspired by botanical plates from the18th century.
   在海莱拉品味的处理之下，尽管这些大胆的花卉灵感来自于18世纪的植绘盘子，她周一的秀台上并没有陈旧或者寒酸。
7. Hollywood beauty Catherine Zeta-Jones wore dowdy clothes for film auditions-because she was convinced her stunning looks would put directors off.
   好莱坞大美女凯瑟琳·泽塔·琼斯曾经特地穿得邋里邋遢跑去试镜&因为她明白自己出众的美貌太能分散导演的注意力了。
8. In a skinny-celebrity-obsessed world, it has been difficult to overcome the dowdy image of plus size.
   在痴迷身材纤细的名人的世界里，大码服装很难推翻古板过时的形象。
9. It suddenly dawned on me one sunny Saturday morning that life is nothing but an accident! a dowdy gray outfit; a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room.
   我恍然大悟一个阳光充足的星期六早晨其实只是件意外的事情！老式的灰衣服；干净、阳光充足但完全没有品位的房间。
10. The dowdy fellow is quite unlike the general run of my wife's guests.
    这个邋里邋遢的家伙完全不象我妻子的客人那一流人。
11. I get so sick of women in dowdy old clothes and perpetual crepe.
    我对那些穿得又丑又旧和永远带着黑纱的女人腻烦透了。
12. Their auto style may be dowdy today but in China, tomorrow is always just around the corner.
    他们的汽车车型或许现在很落伍但在中国，明天总是就在拐角处。
13. She looked a dowdy and very plain young woman.
    她看上去是一个不懂时尚且相貌平平的年轻女子。
14. China's stock market mania has reached the dowdy, two-room offices of the Tiancheng pawnshop in central Shanghai.
    中国股市的狂热，已经波及上海市中心天成典当行。
15. She looked very plain and dowdy.
    她长得非常普通，衣也过时。
16. A dowdy gray outfit; a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room.
    老式的灰衣服；干净、阳光充足但完全没有品位的房间。
17. She made the other women look dowdy and careless.
    她使其他人相形见绌，使她们显得太懒散。
18. After using the Facebook visual feed for six days, I find the web-version of Facebook downright dowdy, slow and well, not fun.
    在使用了Facebook的信息视觉化展示6天后，我觉得这个网页版本的Facebook下载速度慢，不好玩。
19. She felt dowdy as she came through the door.
    她一走进门就觉得自己的衣着寒碜过时了。
20. The national team would be given a more shapely kit to emphasise their femininity on the pitch and would swap dowdy track suits for skirts and jackets when travelling.
    国家队队员将领到一套更合体的球衣，以便在球场上突出她们的女性特点；当她们外出旅行时，裙子和短上衣也将取代原来松松垮垮的运动服。
21. Fairmont wants a repositioning, not a restoration, he says, adding they don't want a dowdy museum piece.
    卡尔称，费尔蒙想要重新设计，而不是改造。他还说：他们不想要一个过时的博物馆。
22. Slip-shod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy indifference,& half-hearted work seem the rule;
    工作上拖拖拉拉、漫不经心、三心二意似乎已成常态；
23. Dowdy on the outside, its entrance is a riotous stairway to arts and crafts heaven.
    尽管这家博物馆的外表平淡无奇，但其入口却是一条通往艺术与工艺殿堂的台阶。

  shabby dingy dowdy grubby【导航词义：脏的，破旧的】

  shabby adj. 破旧的，破烂的

〔辨析〕指衣物、场所等因长期使用或照管不善而变得肮脏破旧的。

  dingy adj. 肮脏的

〔辨析〕通常指某处所阴暗、肮脏、状况很糟的。

  dowdy adj. 邋遢的；过时的

〔辨析〕尤指女人不整洁的，也指衣着等过时的。

  grubby adj. 肮脏的，不洁的

〔辨析〕指人或物不干净且需要清洗的，喻指行为或活动不道德的。

noun

1. deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust

   Synonym:    pandowdy

adj

1. primly out of date
   1. nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game

   Synonym:    frumpyfrumpish

2. lacking in smartness or taste
   1. a dowdy grey outfit
   2. a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room