frump

Example Sentences

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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

In film after film, Mr. Gabler writes, she’d go “from mieskeit to beauty” — mieskeit is Yiddish for an ugly person, a frump — “from an outsider to a guiding light.”

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2016

With too much nerve, you are a fashion victim; without enough, you’re a frump.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 1, 2015

Even French couture can’t rescue my frump, and my notion of hunting is based on true fables about failure.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 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