Anon - I hear you, but I don't think I was dressed frumpily. From Wordnik.com. [One Bright Star (1B*) Reignited] Reference
But even women in law firms aren't expected to "dress frumpily.". From Wordnik.com. [Female Academics Should Emulate Old Farts?] Reference
The Whitney clan clustered around "Woman with Dog" -- a frumpily photo-realistic Duane Hanson sculpture. From Wordnik.com. [Pictures From An Exhibition] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Luongo: Beirut Book Fair for Gay Travels in the Muslim World: Day One] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Grave Surprise]
TV's delightful, insightful, frumpily-attired NFL analyst for three decades probably has earned the time off. From Wordnik.com. [American Chronicle] Reference
It was navy blue silk with small white flowers, little capped sleeves, a fitted bodice and it swirled narrowly rather than frumpily around my mid calves. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
He took Ilena’s arm as they went to the study, and I followed frumpily behind. From Wordnik.com. [Haunted Honeymoon] Reference
Dress frumpily. From Wordnik.com. [Female Academics Should Emulate Old Farts?] Reference
Dress frumpily?. From Wordnik.com. [Female Academics Should Emulate Old Farts?] Reference
Sarcastically, frumpily, disparagingly, lovingly, ironically, playfully. From Wordnik.com. [What the British Chiropractic Association - and English Libel Law - should do next] Reference
Do you think that chain-smoking , frizzy grayed-haired, frumpily-dressed 70 year-old grandmother, with her pocked-marked, heavily lined face and liverspots , could, with her brand of smart, tough, down-to-earth, straight-talking politics, win the hearts and minds of the American public?. From Wordnik.com. ["Women Feeling Freer to Suggest 'Vote for Mom.'"] Reference
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