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How to use frumpy in a sentence

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And Law possesses the frumpy slouch of a man dissatisfied with his lot in life.
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.
The frumpy looks belie this mid-engined car's beguiling flat-six engine and fabulous handling.
It was even more depressing trying the things on, since everything seemed designed to make you look as frumpy as possible.
Far from from frumpy and grumpy, it seems many older men care about their appearance and have a positive outlook on life.
Theresa Healey transformed herself from slightly frumpy mother-of-two to the evening's sizzling cha cha star.
Happily, designers continue to plunder the her archive with a riot of florals that look more flirty than frumpy.
Even at that she is badly served by a frumpy blonde wig and clinging dresses that make her look more like a dumpy middle-aged housewife.
She found her man the right hairstylist and updated his frumpy wardrobe to achieve the urbane Euro flavor he aspired to.
Television pundits lambasted her image as a frumpy housewife who delivered dull speeches while clad in dowdy grey or brown suits.
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.
But with Tiffany gone, she no longer looked so dull and frumpy in comparison.
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.
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.
In the novel, Newton takes up with a frumpy, unlettered Kentucky woman well into middle age.
But relative next to our toned and styled first lady, it was stodgy and frumpy.
It was like that moment in a corny Hollywood movie when the frumpy girl next door takes off her glasses and – aw, gee! – it's Grace Kelly!
The knits were heavy, the grape prints looked like table linens, and the long skirts with the high waist were frumpy.
The pregnant actress sported a particularly frumpy skirt, striped Nora Batty-style long socks and wedge-heeled bovver boots on a trip out in London.
It's like she is in Fashion Jail and only allowed to wear frumpy dated Sloane florals and old lady canary yellow.
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If she had been a stiff, frumpy thing, I just couldn't have paid the least attention to her.
This murky and meretricious beloved, who comes from a frumpy family, soon finds other ne'er-do-wells of more interest than her huddled husband.
She has never ceased to talk about the frumpy crowd she met there.
Prior to her wedding, she described herself as fat, frumpy and uncomfortable in her own skin.
I have been a grumpy, frumpy, wayward sort of a woman, a good many years.
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