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adv. - In a dowdy unfashionable manner.

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Usage examples (13)
  • Anon - I hear you, but I don't think I was dressed frumpily.
  • But even women in law firms aren't expected to "dress frumpily."
  • The Whitney clan clustered around "Woman with Dog" -- a frumpily photo-realistic Duane Hanson sculpture.
  • 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...
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