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How to pronounce dowdy

“dowdy” pronunciation in American and British English

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“dowdy” in real sentences

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  1. It wears dowdy clothes and speaks quietly.

    The School of Life

  2. So at 50, why should a woman look dowdy?

    Vanity Fair

  3. off a renewed appreciation of our own more dowdy avian companions and yet the

    British Library

  4. make each other feel dowdy unclean unloved not beautiful in the end it all comes down

    How To Academy

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