ADJ-GRADED
(人或衣着)单调的，土气的，不时髦的
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...
接待众多官员及他们衣着落伍的夫人
Her clothes were clean but dowdy.
她衣着整洁但有点土气。