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frumpy

[fruhm-pee] / ˈfrʌm pi /


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Equihua is reimagining the frumpy image of the adult pajama, afterthought cotton shirts and old worn-in lover’s shorts that would never see the light of day.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

After Fawlty Towers, Scales continued to work in television, including a stint as the frumpy Elizabeth Mapp in ITV's Mapp and Lucia.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

What’s left is a narrowed, frumpy prestige app that feels like HBO Now and HBO Go, complemented only by a limited window of BritBox previews.

From Slate • Aug. 7, 2025

The drape, fit and feel of clothes are her passion and her living, but her own outfit is pallid, frumpy — a kind of camouflage.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2023

A quiet old lady bunny in a frumpy blue dress hopped into the Rotunda Reading Room.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein




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