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frump

[ US /ˈfɹəmp/ ]
[ UK /fɹˈʌmp/ ]
NOUN
  1. a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman
    she got a reputation as a frump
    she's a real dog

How To Use frump In A Sentence

  • Moving Houses was commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, but here it is played (in a revised version) by the frumpily named Ethel.
  • We will all be 50 and I would like to look cool and trendy rather than old and frumpy. Times, Sunday Times
  • But she also comes across as a humourless frump, needing constant cajoling from her husband to stay afloat.
  • Once you get to a size 14 you find that most swimwear in the shops is dowdy and frumpy. The Sun
  • It's as if she can't make up her mind whether she wants to be a siren, a vamp or a frump.
  • And Law possesses the frumpy slouch of a man dissatisfied with his lot in life.
  • Happily, designers continue to plunder the her archive with a riot of florals that look more flirty than frumpy.
  • It's as if she can't make up her mind whether she wants to be a siren, a vamp or a frump.
  • 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.
  • But with Tiffany gone, she no longer looked so dull and frumpy in comparison.
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