frumpy
adjective
frumpily
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a word derived from
frumpy.
Example Sentences
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Quite a difference, he said, from her days playing the shaggy haired, frumpily dressed Janis Ian in his favorite movie, “Mean Girls.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 26, 2014
There, on the pavement at the end of the turning into the Strand, stood the scraggy, erect, grey-clad, frumpily hatted figure of my Aunt Anastasia.
From Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune by Mrs. Oliver Onions
Now when I think of the New Willard, I see frumpily dressed dowagers talking through their lorgnettes to moth-eaten senators.
From Vignettes of San Francisco by Almira Bailey
