She knew that this was the case, although Miss Sophia's dress was almost dowdy, and the little brown slipper which peeped out from under the folds of her gray dress was decidedly the worse for wear.
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade
She detested all dowdy women.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell
Her hat seemed dowdy, yet becoming.
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit