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I figured it was because she looked a little frumpy.

She is caught in her middle years, handsome and not a bit frumpy.

"You get these frumpy chairs and turn them into completely different people," she said.

The dress was the same, he thought, though it had somehow become frumpy.

Girls, wear your little black dress or risk feeling frumpy.

She was the essence of frumpy, and comfortable with that.

We know Nat just had a baby this past year but why look so frumpy?

They seem to think she should be portrayed as frumpy."

"Yeah, but she's a long way from frumpy white trash."

They just got frumpy - or worse, desperate and pathetic.

He gave the mildly frumpy group in the far corner of the room an intent look.

The rest of the world is frumpy in comparison.

Leslie Fay may be seen as frumpy and slow to change.

Fifty should not mean frumpy; it's about comfort and elegance.

I'm going to look like an idiot, she thought, preposterously frumpy.

You try to hide that delectable body with frumpy clothes.

He met her again in 1843 when she had become a frumpy, middle-aged matron.

He would have survived more easily had he been old and frumpy.

A big red circle around a photo, a photo of a fat, frumpy black woman.

And finally, here he was in the company of a frumpy field-grade nurse, nearly old enough to be his mother.

Because you can go feeling frumpy and sup without striking a pose.

Besides, I was heavily disguised to look middle-aged and frumpy.

I have been a grumpy, frumpy, wayward sort of a woman, a good many years.

The warm, close air and the frumpish women gave Bond claustrophobia.

A plump woman with gray hair and a rather frumpish uniform approached them.

A change that revealed a far from frumpish shape, and also suited the requirements of her current activity.

Her voice has a certain frumpish quality, a rasp that gives off mental odors of alcohol and cigarettes.

It is duchesses, not shop assistants, who find the Queen dowdy, frumpish and banal.

I daresay she thought I was too frumpish.'

Heads ducked back when Ilna stepped out, but one frumpish woman continued working at the knots which held the lookout.

You're in your proper profession right now-- sucking up dirt for frumpish housewives, closet drunkards every one.

They had annihilated that unfair advantage with frumpish clothes, bad posture, chewing gum, and a ghoulish use of cosmetics.

Daw has just died, and has asked Crow to look after his frumpish daughter Marjorie.

A sequinned micro-mini would have been considered frumpish compared to what the girls from admin wore to their Xmas party.

Wendell Weedon, the frumpish reporter from the Austin Advocate cut him off.

'Nothing frumpish about you, Julia.

Enid Parker (Jill Forster) arrived as a jolly but frumpish spinster secretary.

She had deliberately chosen an outfit likely to reinforce the general perception of her as Samantha's frumpish maiden aunt - floral-patterned dress and plain cardigan.

Grimes slid a regretful glance at his own frumpish boat, but assented by fumbling for the barely visible port of the speedster.

Those beloved, frumpish books gave off a smell that permeated the ward-like flannel pajamas that hadn't been changed for a month, or like Irish stew.

'Middle-aged businessmen with midlife crises are supposed to leave frumpish old wives for dazzling young actresses, not the other way round.'

A young man garbed in sumptuous white satin is about to embrace a frumpish young woman of serious mien, wearing a green gown and military-style boots.

All eyes shifted from the dear but decidedly frumpish Mina to the dazzling Lady Helene Dunville.

At the celebrations for Hamish's return, Maggie catches a glimpse of herself in a shop window and is shocked to see the fat, frumpish woman she has become.

Playing some of her roles, Mr. Michals, sporting a frumpish wig, is seen in one panel dejected by a bad hair day; in another, painting his fingernails.

There is rarely any real interest in fashion now, but it is heartening when some individuality of style and presence remains, and the frumpish 'old lady' image is avoided.

In 1942 she scored again in "Now, Voyager," as Charlotte Vale, a frumpish spinster who blossoms into a confident beauty and finds true love with Paul Henreid.