British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970).

synoniemen: Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, Dowding, Hugh Dowding.

Deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust.

synoniem: pandowdy.

Roget 851: vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism^†; mauvis gout [Fr.], bad taste; gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact; ill-breeding etc. (discourtesy) 895.    courseness etc. adj.^†; indecorum, misbehavior.    lowness, homeliness; low life, mauvais ton [Fr.], rusticity; boorishness etc. adj.; brutality; rowdyism, blackguardism^†; ribaldry; slang etc. (neology) 563.    bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie [Fr.].    [Excess of ornament] gaudiness, tawdriness; false ornament; finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant^†; baroque, rococo.    rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub^†; clown etc. (commonalty) 876; Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu etc. 876; frump, dowdy; slattern etc. 653.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 653: uncleanness etc. adj.; impurity; immundity^†, immundicity^†; impurity etc. 961 [of mind]. defilement, contamination etc. v.; defoedation^†; soilure^†, soiliness^†; abomination; leaven; taint, tainture^†; fetor etc. 401^†.    decay; putrescence, putrefaction; corruption; mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo^†.    slovenry^†; slovenliness etc. adj.; squalor.    dowdy, drab, slut, malkin^†, slattern, sloven, slammerkin^†, slammock^†, slummock^†, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark^†, dust-man, sweep; beast.    dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff^†; sossle^†, sozzle^†.    sordes^†, dregs, grounds, lees; argol^†; sediment, settlement heeltap^†; dross, drossiness^†; mother^†, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders.    recrement^†, slag; scum, froth.    hogwash; ditchwater^†, dishwater, bilgewater^†; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings etc. (useless refuse) 645; offscourings^†, outscourings^†; off scum; caput mortuum [Lat.], residuum, sprue, fecula [Lat.], clinker, draff^†; scurf, scurfiness^†; exuviae [Lat.], morphea; fur, furfur^†; dandruff, tartar.    riffraff; vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch^†.    mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh [U.S.].    spawn, offal, gurry [U.S.]; lientery^†; garbage, carrion; excreta etc. 299; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria^†; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap [Vulg.], shit [Vulg.]; sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost.    dunghill, colluvies^†, mixen^†, midden, bog, laystall^†, sink, privy, jakes; toilet, john, head; cess^†, cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole.    sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable^†, sink of corruption; slum, rookery.    ... meer laten zien

Lacking in smartness or taste.

Roget 653: dirty, filthy, grimy; unclean, impure; soiled etc. v.; not to be handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy^†, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy [U.S.].    slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly.    [of people] unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed; uncombed.    unscoured^†, unswept^†, unwiped^†, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified^†; squalid; lutose^†, slammocky^†, slummocky^†, sozzly^†.    nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy^†; fetid etc. 401.    [of rotting living matter] decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid^†, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral^†, lentiginous^†, touched, fusty, effete, reasty^†, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous^†; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous^†, excrementitious^†; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous^†; gory, bloody; rotting etc. v.; rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese.    crapulous etc. (intemperate) 954^†; gross etc. (impure in mind) 961; fimetarious^†, fimicolous^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 851: in bad taste vulgar, unrefined.    coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming^†, unpresentable^†; contra bonos mores [Lat.]; ungraceful etc. (ugly) 846.    dowdy; slovenly etc. (dirty) 653; ungenteel, shabby genteel; low, common, hoi polloi [Gr.], etc. (plebeian) 876; uncourtly^†; uncivil etc. (discourteous) 895; ill bred, ill mannered; underbred; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unladylike, unfeminine; wild, wild as an unbacked colt.    untutored, unschooled (ignorant) 491.    unkempt.    uncombed, untamed, unlicked^†, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite^†; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic, unclassical^†, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish; uncultivated; Bohemian.    obsolete etc. (antiquated) 124; unfashionable; newfangled etc. (unfamiliar) 83; odd etc. (ridiculous) 853.    particular; affected etc. 855; meretricious; extravagant, monstrous, horrid; shocking etc. (painful) 830.    gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo; bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread; obtrusive.    ... meer laten zien

Primly out of date.

synoniemen: frumpish, frumpy.