Somewhat dowdy, she seethes with suppressed passion.

But when I married Trent I was forty-one years old and somewhat dowdy.

Daphne Broon - The plump, somewhat dowdy daughter who is always playing second fiddle to her beautiful sister Maggie on double dates.

Since his election in 1997, England's young Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has been committed to changing Britain's somewhat dowdy image to "Cool Britannia."

Its reputation was for family-friendly, if somewhat dowdy, fare.

Pearson P.L.C. has been known as a somewhat dowdy, meandering, blue-blooded media group - a conglomerate run more like an investment firm than an aggressive outfit.

That's what my family did, looking at listings on vacation-rental Web sites before finding a suitable (though somewhat dowdy) one-bedroom downtown apartment through www.vrbo.com for $119 a night.

Every summer, China's leaders troop to this somewhat dowdy seaside resort to paddle around in the Bohai Gulf.

The public viewed the Chevys and their General Motors siblings as somewhat dowdy compared with competing 1957 cars.

He thought of the somewhat dowdy women in attendance upon her and decided to consult with his mother.