frump

Example Sentences

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The rest insist I am a joyless frump.

From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2019

Without the frump and without Weegee’s brilliant title, “The Critic,” this wouldn’t be a Weegee.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2018

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

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