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Recent Examples of frumpy
As the name suggests, the jeans have a slightly oversized design that’s baggy without looking frumpy.
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Clara McMahon, People.com, 30 Sep. 2024
The sweater has an oversized design that’s comfortable and cozy without looking frumpy.
—Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2024
This midi sweater dress has a slightly oversized design that feels cozy without looking frumpy.
—Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2024
Update your cozy-season essentials with sweaters and cardigans that are anything but frumpy.
—Victoria Montalti, refinery29.com, 7 Aug. 2024
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Clara McMahon, People.com, 30 Sep. 2024
The sweater has an oversized design that’s comfortable and cozy without looking frumpy.
—Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2024
This midi sweater dress has a slightly oversized design that feels cozy without looking frumpy.
—Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2024
Update your cozy-season essentials with sweaters and cardigans that are anything but frumpy.
—Victoria Montalti, refinery29.com, 7 Aug. 2024
See all Example Sentences for frumpy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for frumpy
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There is no denying that Donald Trump has engaged in behavior that is unacceptable and unbecoming of any leader — let alone a president of the United States.Maggie Astor, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
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To have lived through an encompassing albeit unbecoming love and have survived it with all the parts of herself intact feels like a triumph.Vulture, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2022
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Insufficient split, bent and separated legs and unaesthetic body position are a few of the others that fall under that category.Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2024
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Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Palmer’s has gone viral on TikTok as an unaesthetic—yet nourishing and effective—skincare brand.Chaunie Brusie, RN, Parents, 5 Apr. 2024
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Exciting, repulsive and beautiful in equal measure, this feels like something the writer-director has been working toward since his unsettling 2016 debut feature, The Witch.David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024
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Figuring out exactly what is so repulsive about ketchup could also be helpful, Goldberg said.Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 9 Nov. 2024
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More than a quarter of a century later, Foster will step onto that same field Saturday night needing to prove himself anew against another team wearing the loathsome cardinal and gold.Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
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Denzel Washington was gruesomely low down in the dirt as a cop willing to wield his privilege against vulnerable Black and brown communities in 2001’s admittedly loathsome Training Day.Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2024
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That ends up dislodging the disgusting foreign item in Larry's throat.Esther Zuckerman, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
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Leigh goes for the gags in this one, from Broadbent’s workplace pratfall to friend of the family Aubrey’s (Timothy Spall) disgusting new restaurant.Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Frumpy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frumpy. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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