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June 12, 2024 Katie Holmes is not afraid of putting a little frump in her stride.
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Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 12 June 2024
Plus: the horror of the knee-length ‘frump’ length!
—Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
Intriguingly, for her latest performance as a great lady from history, playing Israel’s Prime Minister Golda Meir, Mirren has finally opted to go full frump.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2023
Most often, they’re stacked right next to each other, as when Perry’s great sass-mouth frump Madea suddenly plops into the middle of a dramatic scene.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Sep. 2022
Dear Amy: My 24-year-old gorgeous, loving, and generous daughter dresses like a messy frump!
—Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2019
Ostensibly a parody of 1950s social mores, the show actually gives us a familiar lineup of high-school cliches: The dimwit jock, the equally dim cheerleader, the frump, the nerds (male and female, each sporting glasses of course) and so on.
—Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Aug. 2017
Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 12 June 2024
Plus: the horror of the knee-length ‘frump’ length!
—Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
Intriguingly, for her latest performance as a great lady from history, playing Israel’s Prime Minister Golda Meir, Mirren has finally opted to go full frump.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2023
Most often, they’re stacked right next to each other, as when Perry’s great sass-mouth frump Madea suddenly plops into the middle of a dramatic scene.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Sep. 2022
Dear Amy: My 24-year-old gorgeous, loving, and generous daughter dresses like a messy frump!
—Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2019
Ostensibly a parody of 1950s social mores, the show actually gives us a familiar lineup of high-school cliches: The dimwit jock, the equally dim cheerleader, the frump, the nerds (male and female, each sporting glasses of course) and so on.
—Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Aug. 2017
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“Frump.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frump. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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