How To Use Frump In A Sentence
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Moving Houses was commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, but here it is played (in a revised version) by the frumpily named Ethel.
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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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But she also comes across as a humourless frump, needing constant cajoling from her husband to stay afloat.
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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's as if she can't make up her mind whether she wants to be a siren, a vamp or a frump.
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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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It's as if she can't make up her mind whether she wants to be a siren, a vamp or a frump.
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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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She dresses like a frump, and that is the bottom line.
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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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`Not frumpish, not gushing and no more churchy than is strictly necessary.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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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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I'd like to wear something trendy, so I don't feel like a taffeta meringue-wearing frump.
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No doubt it's as dried up as that frump who's just wasted twenty minutes of my precious time!
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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She questioned angrily, ‘Who is he calling a frump?’
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She transformed from frump to vamp for her role as the Wife of Bath.
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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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Anna could see there was a thick grey line in her parting; now, the hippy style made her look old-fashioned, almost frumpish.
Deadly Intent
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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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Okay, like everyone else, I too was staggered that such a seemingly trained voice should come out the mouth of a woman who's been dubbed a 'frump'.
All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
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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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Otherwise it would become too / ladylike and frumpish / for me.
Archive 2009-05-01
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I was a bit hurried due to time, but I looked neither tarty nor frumpy.
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Few academics slog through Scott anymore, but English departments still need Scott scholars; you can jump the line of more modish tenure seekers, if you volunteer to play the frump.
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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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I was willing to bet she'd arrived in the minivan now sitting frumpily among the other vehicles pulled up to the wire strung between white posts to separate the gravel parking lot from the grass of the churchyard.
Grave Surprise
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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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An American import centred on an unlikely fashion magazine recruit who dresses frumpily in glasses and braces.
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She looked a frump in her shapeless skirt and flat shoes.
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In the YouTube video of that performance, you see a pretty, kittenish, frumpily dressed brunette, an alumna of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a first-rate Manhattan private school, who was at that time enrolled in New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She sings with style and conviction but betrays few hints of the pop superstar she was soon to become-after "the transformation," as Gorka referred to it.
The New Yorker
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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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Ms. Greer jumped into the movie scene as the frump turned vixen in the otherwise unmemorable Jawbreaker in 1999.
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In fact, as the lamb and red wine were served, my first impression of Blairand of his wife, Cherie, who was then very much in her slightly frumpish, pre-designer periodwas that they were bright, articulate, personable.
A Question of Honour
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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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Just because you remember Ann Taylor as the ultimate purveyor of frump, doesn't mean she still is.
Style Section L.A.: Ready, Set, Shop: L.A.'s 5 Newest Fashion and Beauty Spots
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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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Okay, for all of you Hot Mamas who are masquerading as frumps, go to this website and play the song dedicated to you.
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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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That which he doth, is only to conskite, spoil, and defile all, which is the cause wherefore he hath of all men mocks, frumperies, and bastinadoes.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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But even women in law firms aren't expected to "dress frumpily.
Archive 2008-02-01
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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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Dr. Eagerpants: Gnarl slurp burble meow hiss frumple woof?
Progressive Bloggers
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Deliverance Dobbins, a frumpish, fizgig of a maid, ever complaining of bodily ills though her chuffy cheeks were red as pippins, reported that one day when she had gone for simples she had seen strange, dead things in the jars of M. Picot's dispensary.
Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade
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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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I hate the ones who pretend they haven't seen you when you try to flag them down while dressed frumpily, but sensibly, for the cold.
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As she looked back at Katherine frumpily trailing, she hoped so.
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It's as if she can't make up her mind whether she wants to be a siren, a vamp or a frump.
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Frizzle haired, doubled-chinned, bad teeth, wearing a dress that screamed 'frump'.
Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
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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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Realize that the same outfit that looks powerful, pulled together, and fresh on someone under 25 makes a woman more mature look like a frump.
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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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This is Mrs Tate, aka the frumpiest, dowdiest teacher known to man outside of a comedy, of course.
Archive 2010-06-01
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Designers have taken the bulk, and some of the frumpery, out of sensible tweedy fabrics to give these jackets a nostalgic, vaguely Forties or Fifties air.
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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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She looked a frump in her shapeless skirt and flat shoes.
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TV's delightful, insightful, frumpily-attired NFL analyst for three decades probably has earned the time off.
American Chronicle
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Flatties were frumpy, sensible and utterly uncharismatic.
Times, Sunday Times
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She admits she was frumpish, in twinset and pearls, when she first met John.
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Anon - I hear you, but I don't think I was dressed frumpily.
One Bright Star (1B*) Reignited
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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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Thx kafleen, Ai wuz feline a bit doun, but thx 2 awl teh hugs ai haz had an a bizit frumPuddy_tat Ai aer awl beddur naow!
Marie Catoinette sez - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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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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We need you to defend us against the barbs from these jealous frumps, and their unhappy husbands.
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The anti-music, anti-nightlife frumps in Seattle have started an email campaign in support of the new Ordinance.
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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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I'll bet Bill Clinton took time out from his usual campaign "frump", picked up his cell phone, and gave Mr. Patterson a "little advice" about his choice of words to the media!!
Paterson says Clinton frustrated, not desperate
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Everywhere around all of them were children, something we should have more of at Western book expos, and then the frumpily dressed intellectuals of Egypt, in suits a size too big, a few years too old.
Michael Luongo: Beirut Book Fair for Gay Travels in the Muslim World: Day One
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But if I did not notice the adverts through my selective conditioning, I was presented with shiny happy photographs of the stars looking at their best to remind me that I am indeed a frump.
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It wasn't the lifeless hair or frumpy dress.
Times, Sunday Times
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She got a reputation as a frump.
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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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Under the proposed law, not only would she have to be more frumpily attired, she would also have to go for something far cheaper.
The Guardian World News
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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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‘Lastly,’ she adds, ‘it doesn't matter how good your face looks, if you still dress like a frump you will still look old.
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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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Gradually, he passed, and Bingham looked deeply into the near distance, away from the man, as if he were watching for something specific, and had been before the man and his brown-haired, frumpish nurse came into his sight.
Free Time
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Or we turn on the TV and find Maury or Sally busily making over some woman who looks too much like a frump or a tramp.
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I hope this doesn't sound like boasting, but as soon as all the frumps saw my get-up, they bowed to my superior hideousness.
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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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But you can't, because you'll never be anything but a common frump whose father lived over a grocery store and whose mother took in washing…
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I'd gone from an organized woman of smooth purpose to a frenzied frump bearing a strange resemblance to a headless chicken.
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Aged far beyond his 47 years, he is frumpy and world-weary.
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So, she had to do with her navy business suit, making her look like an old frump.
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nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game
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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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She admits she was frumpish, in twinset and pearls, when she first met John.
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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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Or is it because you are an incompetent frumpish hysterical female, wholly out of her depth, who instead of acting in a civilised manner as one would expect from someone in your position, instead gives lectures which are downright rude, pig-headedly arrogant and most unladylike?
OpEdNews - Diary: Pravda Hammers Condoleeza Rice
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And, if you think that once you become a mom, you suddenly turn into a frump, you are in for one very dull ride.
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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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He also wants to explore Muskie's private life, and is disappointed when aide John Ehrlichman tells Nixon that Muskie is "" very cloistered, very frumpish. ''
And Now, 'Tricky Dick'
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This was great since a lot of Episcopal women priests' clothes just scream "clericalism" and "frump" I'll get hanged for saying this once my pseudonym loses it pseudonymity, but it's true.
Matchy Matchy Eyeshadow, No No
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If he feels the secretary is dressing rather frumpily, the room may lose that air of formality it needs in order to gain the respect of others.
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Now when I think of the New Willard, I see frumpily dressed dowagers talking through their lorgnettes to moth-eaten senators.
Vignettes of San Francisco
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she got a reputation as a frump
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The Whitney clan clustered around "Woman with Dog" -- a frumpily photo-realistic Duane Hanson sculpture.
Pictures From An Exhibition
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Her mother, inclined to be bossy when affluent, had by then turned into a snivelling frump, endlessly whining about `the good old days".
LAST SHOT
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Not wanting to continue along that path, I put myself on simple, uncomplicated programs (including what's listed above), which helped me lose the weight, get strong and lean, improve my skin and "fight the frump.
Barbara Hannah Grufferman: Life After 50: Plastic Surgery on Your Mind? Before You Do That, Do This
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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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Deliverance Dobbins, a frumpish, fizgig of a maid, ever complaining of bodily ills though her chuffy cheeks were red as pippins, reported that one day when she had gone for simples she had seen strange, dead things in the jars of M. Picot's dispensary.
Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade
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But the "frump" will let herself and all her surroundings go to seed, not from humbleness of mind or an overwhelming sense of her own unworthiness, but in pure complacent conceit.
Worldly Ways and Byways
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She held her head very high indeed, and would not speak to this doll because it was "frumpish," or that doll because it was not in the same set as herself.
Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly
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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