frump
Example Sentences
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The rest insist I am a joyless frump.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2019
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
Cate Blanchett isn’t quite Snow White, but her French frump, Claire Simone, enjoys a princess-at-the ball moment.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 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
