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Examples of frumpish
frumpish
But dressing age-appropriately isn't a question of swapping fashionable for frumpish.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The deliberately frumpish Kathleen Turner is excellent.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
It turns out she was the frumpish-looking woman who had been fired six months earlier from the job we were at.
From the techcrunch.com
She appeared in Alfie, playing the frumpish, pathetic housewife who gets an abortion, and she has a role in the forthcoming Pinter adaptation of Nicholas Mosley's novel, Accident.
From the time.com
In my experience of English chaps with a good education from Eton, Charterhouse, Harrow or even Bedales, while they almost invariably marry frumpish girls, they never spend any real money on them.
From the independent.co.uk
- Dowdy: primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game"
- (frumpishly) dowdily: in a dowdy unfashionable manner; "she dresses dowdily"
- Poorly dressed; wearing drab, lifeless, ill-fitting clothing. More typically used to describe women than men
