How To Use Frumpy In A Sentence
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We will all be 50 and I would like to look cool and trendy rather than old and frumpy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once you get to a size 14 you find that most swimwear in the shops is dowdy and frumpy.
The Sun
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And Law possesses the frumpy slouch of a man dissatisfied with his lot in life.
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Happily, designers continue to plunder the her archive with a riot of florals that look more flirty than frumpy.
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The frumpy church volunteer's first album, "I Dreamed a Dream," was the best-selling debut in British chart history and also topped the US charts.
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But with Tiffany gone, she no longer looked so dull and frumpy in comparison.
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At his side is a middle aged blonde woman, a bit on the frumpy side, dressed in a tan pants suit that doesn't flatter her.
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Television pundits lambasted her image as a frumpy housewife who delivered dull speeches while clad in dowdy grey or brown suits.
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This frumpy quotient is not related so much to how I teach or how I dress; although, I suppose those are factors.
Archive 2008-06-01
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His loveless, routine marriage (to an unrecognisably frumpy Cameron Diaz) is little consolation and, despairing of making a living in his chosen career, he takes a job as a filing clerk.
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Theresa Healey transformed herself from slightly frumpy mother-of-two to the evening's sizzling cha cha star.
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I feel so dowdy and frumpy.
The Sun
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You can make the cutest couple in the world, but if you look frumpy or overdone or even excessively underdone, it won't be worth anything.
Emily de La Bruyere: Prom: A User's Guide
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I feel so dowdy and frumpy.
The Sun
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She did take a moment to glance at what Lisa was wearing though, and wasn't surprised that it was one of her usual dull, frumpy outfits.
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I was a bit hurried due to time, but I looked neither tarty nor frumpy.
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We will all be 50 and I would like to look cool and trendy rather than old and frumpy.
Times, Sunday Times
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It matters if she's doing it in a frumpy dress and nasty straw wedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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YOU may think your quiet neighbour, reserved colleague or the frumpy woman on the bus lead a boring life.
The Sun
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It matters if she's doing it in a frumpy dress and nasty straw wedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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We will all be 50 and I would like to look cool and trendy rather than old and frumpy.
Times, Sunday Times
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YOU may think your quiet neighbour, reserved colleague or the frumpy woman on the bus lead a boring life.
The Sun
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Well, here he is anyway, starring in a tale about a frumpy kid who is given an amazing device that allows him to assume the appearance of anyone he wants to.
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It wasn't the lifeless hair or frumpy dress.
Times, Sunday Times
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It matters if she's doing it in a frumpy dress and nasty straw wedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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I can suspend my disbelief for men who unsheathe adamantium claws through their knuckles and aliens who spit acid and Tina Fey as a frumpy mess with no sex appeal well, I have trouble with that last one.
Washington is bad at scheming
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Every fall I struggle to find a pair of shoes which are comfortable, not frumpy, a bit trendy but not overly so, give me a little lift so I don't feel so casual everyday.
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Once you get to a size 14 you find that most swimwear in the shops is dowdy and frumpy.
The Sun
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It wasn't the lifeless hair or frumpy dress.
Times, Sunday Times
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I feel so dowdy and frumpy.
The Sun
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Filmed mainly in the 1960s and 1970s they had a small cast of actors who reprised comedy stereotypes: the fat frumpy matron, the likely lad, the dolly bird, the effete homosexual etc.
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She might have looked frumpy in a place like Hollywood, but in Britain she looked upper crust.
SUMMER OF SECRETS
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Well she's cute, as ever, and it's nice to see so many women over the age of 30 continuing to play the love interest these days instead of being relegated to the frumpy mom roles.
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Uncomfortable with her ‘frumpy’ appearance, she has replaced dowdy suits with bright blouses, employs a celebrity hairdresser and takes a makeup artist to rallies.
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Flatties were frumpy, sensible and utterly uncharismatic.
Times, Sunday Times
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The batwing sleeves and big hair are decidedly frumpy, and there are too many far-fetched storylines about murdered bodyguards and unfeeling in-laws.
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YOU may think your quiet neighbour, reserved colleague or the frumpy woman on the bus lead a boring life.
The Sun
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Sally had grimaced with distaste when she had met her from the train, immediately condemning the beige shirt waister dress she was wearing as unbelievably frumpy and sexless.
Lesson to Learn
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I feel so dowdy and frumpy.
The Sun
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Out of the corner of my eye I see a business suited, fiftyish, woman with a bad haircut and frumpy pumps, sitting at the table closest to our sofa, pull her skirt down over her knees and tap at her laptop several times.
The Spy At The Spot On Café
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It wasn't the lifeless hair or frumpy dress.
Times, Sunday Times
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It appears, though, that his reading comprehension was apparently lacking, because Toth replies in the comments: As the author-channeler of Ms. Mentor, I do bristle at the characterization of her fashion advice as merely “frumpy, old farty, not poufy.”
Female Academics Should Emulate Old Farts?
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There isn't much that can diminish the romantic feelings between husband and wife than to see your spouse looking frumpy and disheveled.
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She found her man the right hairstylist and updated his frumpy wardrobe to achieve the urbane Euro flavor he aspired to.
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There isn't much that can diminish the romantic feelings between husband and wife than to see your spouse looking frumpy and disheveled.
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Aged far beyond his 47 years, he is frumpy and world-weary.
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But the conservative business model, which might have seemed a bit frumpy five or six years ago, may be the perfect one for the postcrash economy.
Wines That Favor Balance Over Power
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Sitting behind a large wooden desk sat an old rather frumpy man in a well-worn smoking jacket, unlit pipe in one hand, staring intently at an open book in front of him.
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In the video, the frumpy seniors perform a piano duet rendition of an old American ballad, ‘Green Fields,’ providing a rather melancholy soundtrack to the entire video.
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Far from from frumpy and grumpy, it seems many older men care about their appearance and have a positive outlook on life.
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I think his slightly frumpy, rumpled, homespun manner would go well with Obama's supersmooth more classical presentation.
Obama Campaigning With Potential VPs Today In Virginia
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Once you get to a size 14 you find that most swimwear in the shops is dowdy and frumpy.
The Sun
