Nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
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. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly] Reference
Otherwise it would become too / ladylike and frumpish / for me. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
A plump woman with gray hair and a rather frumpish uniform approached them. From Wordnik.com. [The Wizard Of Karres]
Wendell Weedon, the frumpish reporter from the Austin Advocate cut him off. From Wordnik.com. [Clean Kill]
She pulled a face at herself as she put on one of her old skirts and sweaters, shocked to discover how frumpish they were. From Wordnik.com. [Lovers Touch]
Anna could see there was a thick grey line in her parting; now, the hippy style made her look old-fashioned, almost frumpish. From Wordnik.com. [Deadly Intent] Reference
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. ''. From Wordnik.com. [And Now, 'Tricky Dick'] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Question of Honour] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Free Time] Reference
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?. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: Pravda Hammers Condoleeza Rice] Reference
The only one I liked was the frumpish Angela Merkel, who didn't seem to like anything. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The older stuff, on the other hand, so much less frumpish and uncouth, I thought splendid. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
It does seem odd and frumpish not to be in Scotland, but motoring covers a multitude of social sins. From Wordnik.com. [Set in Silver] Reference
Mrs. Flint was a rather frumpish individual, who always gave the impression of pieced-out dressmaking. From Wordnik.com. [The Blood Red Dawn] Reference
Kitty, fat and fashionable, and Di, slim and elaborately frumpish, came to meet me with pajama legs in their hands. From Wordnik.com. [Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley] Reference
Once upon a Christmas, a pair of slippers was the gift of last resort, a frumpish milestone on the lonely road to middle age. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
He is as silly and as squeamish as Mrs.St. Edward, and adopts all the old-fashioned absurd notions of that frumpish fellow Tracy. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Woman] Reference
To sum up the things you hated inordinately, they were friskiness of manner and of trimmings, and curls combined with rather bygone or frumpish fashions. From Wordnik.com. [The Children] Reference
Janeane Garofalo, who currently plays the frumpish FBI computer analyst on the hit FOX TV show 24, recently opined about the Tea Party protests on MSNBC. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking News - The Post Chronicle] Reference
Naturally a girl like Di was enchanted to lead him about, tied to what would have been her apron strings if she'd been frumpish enough to wear such things. From Wordnik.com. [Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley] Reference
My lady had made me dress in a very rich black silk dress of her own, and ordered me to do my hair in a somewhat frumpish fashion, with a parting, and a "bun" at the back. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Molly of Scotland Yard] Reference
Of course, first he must ridicule Simran for all her ` stoopid 'misconceptions about lurrrv, including her boyfriend Raj who besides being a frumpish bore, wears ` fugly' shirts too. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
The worst he had expected was that she would be frumpish, or old-fashioned, or commonplace like these other women standing about, but it had not occurred to him that she might be conspicuously grotesque. From Wordnik.com. [The Fighting Shepherdess] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade] Reference
This being arranged, and the evening advanced, we slipped away from the rest, which was no very difficult business; for Mrs.St. Edward was gone to read a sermon, or some such frumpish thing, to her maids; and my father and mother were both fast asleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Woman] Reference
I’m blessed if I can see who, by the wildest flight of imagination, could have wanted to kill this very dull middle-aged frumpish spinster. From Wordnik.com. [Overture to Death]
“She’s proud of her mother,” I said, surprised to remember how I’d felt at seeing her looking as striking as a crane in a flock of frumpish pigeons. From Wordnik.com. [Haunted Honeymoon] Reference
"abnormal" or eccentric; she was perfectly modest, simple and unaffected, and the Duchess was a trifle disappointed that she was not ill-dressed, frowsy, frumpish and blue-spectacled. From Wordnik.com. [Innocent : her fancy and his fact] Reference
Let me lay this on you, oh piously frumpish ones. From Wordnik.com. [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference
"If you cannot see the difference between that frumpish gown of yours, with its little bobtails and fringes, and those pretty dresses before us, I must say you are as blind as a bat. From Wordnik.com. [Not Like Other Girls] Reference
It was to be frumpish. From Wordnik.com. [Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley] Reference
But for the sullen, frumpish fool. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
The best people had played frumpish parts then. From Wordnik.com. [Broken to the Plow] Reference
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