Dowdy

(noun.) deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust.

(adj.) primly out of date; 'nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game' .

(adj.) lacking in smartness or taste; 'a dowdy grey outfit'; 'a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room' .

整理:莱克格斯

• No, I'm tired of being dowdy, so I dressed up as a change. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• She's proud, but I don't believe she'd mind, for that dowdy tarlaton is all she has got. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Yes, answered Sophia: but it is of a very dowdy, dry-looking man. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Then, drawing back with a little smile of warning--I shall look hideous in dowdy clothes; but I can trim my own hats, she declared. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.

手打:纳塔利