Definition of "dowdify" [dowdify]

• To make dowdy; to make unfashionable. (verb)

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• "Dowd wasn't adroit enough to keep from getting caught chopping up quotes to distort their meaning, as she did with President Bush in 2003 - from which bloggers coined the term "dowdify"."
• "dowdify v: to edit a quote so as to convey a different meaning from what was intended, primarily to damage the subject being quoted."