Definition of "dowdily" [dowdily]

• In a dowdy manner (adverb)

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• "No one could deny that Grace was clever, but she was poor, dressed very plainly -- "dowdily," the girls said -- and "roomed" herself, that phrase meaning that she rented a little unfurnished room and cooked her own meals over an oil stove."
• "But sales at the dowdily middle-market deparment stores have been falling at a rate of 3 percent to 5 percent a year."
• "Negrepelisse as she really was, as Parisians saw her — a tall, lean, withered woman, with a pimpled face and faded complexion; angular, stiff, affected in her manner; pompous and provincial in her speech; and, and above all these things, dowdily dressed."