British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970)
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Examples for "frumpy "
Examples for "frumpy "
1 A rather frumpy old bachelor, with thinning hair and a thickening neck.
2 The frumpy blonde stood by her station wagon, staring back at her.
3 She is frumpy enough for anything; and you call that an engagement?
4 The frumpy man before him was a gift from Aziz's newest benefactor.
5 Opting for the wrong foundation can render a gorgeous dress unflattering and frumpy .
1 Mrs. Flint was a rather frumpish individual, who always gave the impression of pieced-out dressmaking.
2 The best people had played frumpish parts then.
3 Two well-muscled slaves fanned her with palms, giving her the look of some despotic yet frumpish eastern queen.
4 She really looks a little frumpish out-of-doors, and perhaps that is why papa went on to Mrs. Carruthers.
5 It does seem odd and frumpish not to be in Scotland, but motoring covers a multitude of social sins.
Deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust.
1 She hadn't yet introduced her guest: a dowdy dishwater-blonde with bad posture.
2 They do not dress well; they look altogether somewhat dowdy and commonplace.
3 They live in a dowdy tenement, and are as poor as crows.
4 The dowdy little woman answered her indifferently, staring at her a little.
5 The tiny Twizy is a faster, sportier interpretation of the dowdy NEV.
6 The quiet accountant and his dowdy friend were not very likely co-conspirators.
7 For a moment, the dowdy woman had the face of an angel.
8 It is the shabby, dowdy woman who is in the wrong.
9 The market in Bishkek is a mayhem of spices, meat and dowdy attire.
10 The dowdy woman in charge remembered a young woman such as he described.
11 We had her wear a dowdy wig to look as plain as possible.
12 She felt plain and dowdy beside them, and her spirits suffered in consequence.
13 Yet his preference was still a dowdy , split-level ranch in Fairfax County, Virginia.
14 And next to Emanuelle, she was beginning to feel positively dowdy .
15 Woman does herself an injustice by being dowdy , careless or commonplace in dress.
16 She dressed dowdy , determined not to outshine Katrin, whose looks had declined alarmingly.
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