dowdy

释义

adj.（指衣服）不漂亮的，俗气的，（穿着）邋遢的

大小写变形: Dowdy

词态变化

比较级 :   dowdier ; 最高级 :   dowdiest ;

实用场景例句

Hosting a multitude of distinguished guests and their dowdy companions

招待众多贵宾及其衣着老土的同伴

金山词霸

Her attire was tidy but decidedly dowdy.

她的穿着整洁但明显过时。

金山词霸

a dowdy hat

一顶单调的帽子

金山词霸

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.

辞典例句

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.

辞典例句

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.

期刊摘选

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.

飘（部分）

The existing building's interior spaces by contrast are rather dark, cluttered and dowdy.

现有建物的内部空间相对之下显得相当地黑暗 、 零乱和过时.

期刊摘选

She looked very plain and dowdy.

她长得非常普通,衣也过时.

《简明英汉词典》

The prowess and endowment are the prowler's wager to the dowdy dowager.

英勇和禀赋是潜行者下给衣衫褴褛的富孀的赌注.

期刊摘选

She was in a dowdy blue frock.

她穿了件不大洁净的蓝上衣.

辞典例句

You really do not like a village girl although you said you dress dowdy.

你看不像村姑,虽然你说你的衣着老土.

期刊摘选

Her clothes were clean but dowdy.

她衣着整洁但有点土气。

辞典例句

She makes me feel dowdy and ugly.

她让我自惭形秽。

辞典例句

英英释义

Noun

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

Adjective

1. lacking in smartness or taste;

"a dowdy gray outfit"

"a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room"

2. primly out of date;

"nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game"