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Two money losing companies, GameStop and AMC Entertainment, temporarily found themselves as the largest constituents of the usually dowdy Russell 2000 Value Index.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Especially because, with this dull, dowdy current iteration dragging its cape into theaters, it already has.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

She wore dowdy skirts with equally drab cardigans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024

Unthinkable as it seems, Edna was dowdy then, given to mousy brown hair and pillbox hats.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023

I felt a little dowdy in my clothes, tbh, which was crap because it’s what’s inside that matters and I’d been proud of my T-shirt and glitter Keds at my house, parental comments aside.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

The actress dowdies up her portrayal with a glumly unsmiling demeanor and the flat, poignantly cynical vocal delivery of the nerd who’s smarter — and more annoying — than everyone else in the room.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2016

Julie Andrews, Carol Channing, Ann Margret, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Raquel Welch are the other distinguished dowdies, but it's not really their fault.

From Time Magazine Archive

Von Rosen had the captain’s eye in matters of the toilette; she was none of those who hang in Fabian helplessness among their finery, and, after hours, come forth upon the world as dowdies.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

The ladies dazzle him; he thinks of "our London dowdies" and shudders; but alas! he cannot talk to them.

From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Sir Walter Besant

Half of them will be in gray and half of them in brown, and a few old dowdies will perhaps be in black.

From The Rebel of the School by L. T. Meade

Investors are finding refuge in dowdier names that have been ignored of late, like peanut butter maker J.M.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

It remains to be seen whether Americans will be more willing to wear dowdier, less comfortable but more effective masks to protect themselves and others.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2020

After more than a decade of celebrity glitz and lavishly underwritten partying, Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is shaping up to be a slimmed-down, more sober, slightly dowdier affair.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2017

It occupies a purpose-built new building, a great whorl of glass and golden stone, a few hundred yards from the PPE philosophers’ dowdier premises.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2017

Out at elbows, out at toes, Out at knees, the urchin goes: Still he laughs, and still he grows Rowdier, dowdier, I suppose.

From The Nursery, March 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People by Various

It was arguably the dowdiest of Britain’s major charities — its highest-profile patron has long been Princess Anne, Queen Elizabeth’s daughter.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2018

Even in a down economy there's no shortage of potential buyers for even the dowdiest of franchises.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2010

This night the actors came on the stage in more—or less—than ordinary dress; as men look when they have put on their dowdiest, for bad weather or dirty work: and these men wore their hats.

From Tired Church Members by Anna Bartlett Warner

The men sallow, meagre, and wearing those trousers which, cut very wide and flappy at the ankles, make them the dowdiest men in the world.

From Half Portions by Edna Ferber

She glanced with almost maliciousness at Alice, who, in the dowdiest of pale-gray dresses, with her hair rather untidy and her face destitute of color, was standing near one of the windows.

From The Rebel of the School by L. T. Meade