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.
6 They had annihilated that unfair advantage with frumpish clothes, bad posture, chewing gum, and a ghoulish use of cosmetics.
7 Kitty, fat and fashionable, and Di, slim and elaborately frumpish , came to meet me with pajama legs in their hands.
8 A woman is frumpish and old-fashioned if she does not know that "adultery with one paramour is nick-named marriage."
9 I think they are all most awfully frumpish and stupid, and I can't imagine what makes Joan so fond of them!
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