| I've walked past it loads of times and from the outside always thought it was just a dowdy 70s office block. |
| Tapestries, to me, had always been dim and dowdy things ravaged by time that no one but an academic drudge could like. |
| By the end of Ann's episode, the formerly dowdy Jersey girl is certainly more stylish. |
| There is the same comic contrast between the characters' unbridled enthusiasm and their dowdy clothing and heavy Eastern European accents. |
| Far from being a dowdy matron, she was a strong-willed, independent-minded, intelligent woman, twice married, with a mischievous sense of humour. |
| Only the dowdy daughter, Martha, treats him with kindness, teaching him to read and shielding him occasionally from her siblings' harshest jibes. |
