frumpy
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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 pair broke movie conventions with "Everything Everywhere," spinning a chaotic tale about a stressed-out laundromat owner, her increasingly distant family and a frumpy tax agent across a multiple dimensions.
From Reuters • Mar. 13, 2023
Supporting actress nominee Jamie Lee Curtis is hilariously shocking as frumpy, frazzled IRS worker Deirdre Beaubeirdre, who wears a bad haircut, a mustard turtleneck and a knitted vest in Post-it note yellow.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2023
At eighteen, Elizabeth Manwill was an easy target for mockery: glasses perpetually sliding down her nose, forehead knobby with acne, clothes frumpy and ill fitting.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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