ADJ-GRADED
(人或衣著)單調的，土氣的，不時髦的
If you describe someone or their clothes as dowdy, you mean their clothes are dull and unfashionable.
例句
...playing hostess to a lot of officials and their dowdy wives...
接待眾多官員及他們衣著落伍的夫人
Her clothes were clean but dowdy.
她衣著整潔但有點土氣。