How To Use Frumpish In A Sentence
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`Not frumpish, not gushing and no more churchy than is strictly necessary.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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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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Otherwise it would become too / ladylike and frumpish / for me.
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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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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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She admits she was frumpish, in twinset and pearls, when she first met John.
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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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nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game
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She admits she was frumpish, in twinset and pearls, when she first met John.
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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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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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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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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