frump

Example Sentences

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The 38 outfits designed for Diana by William Ivey Long dramatized how she transformed herself from kindergarten teacher to royal frump to executive princess to international fashion plate far better than the writers did.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2021

Bean duck boots, largely vertical hair that he says “looks like rats nested on my scalp,” and thick-framed Le Corbusier glasses purchased in Paris that are somewhat at war with the home-office frump.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2017

Veronica, by contrast, was a frump of “buzzing ugliness,” who lived in a dingy one-bedroom with six Siamese cats.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 9, 2015

Even French couture can’t rescue my frump, and my notion of hunting is based on true fables about failure.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2014

The frump and the fop, they looked, but they were something more than that.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin