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McCarthy plays a frumpy housewife in middle age who returns to college alongside her daughter after her husband of 23 years dumps her.
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For decades, when not effervescing over royal weddings and births, the tabloids have castigated the royals as lazy, frumpy, dissipated or self-indulgent.
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For decades, when not effervescing over royal weddings and births, the tabloids have castigated the royals as lazy, frumpy, dissipated or self-indulgent.
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Leighton's glowy skin and perfect pout were flawless, but even that wasn't enough to save this frumpy fashion statement.
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The Abercrombie & Fitch model-reject paramedic nods and, along with his frumpy counterpart with a friendly smile, lifts my limp body onto a stretcher.
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The Nissan Leaf, on the other hand, wears its eudaimonia like a frumpy toga.
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The result can look lumpen and occasionally veer too far in the frumpy-is-cool art school direction.
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Barb, who was nerdy and smart and wore glasses that were even frumpy for '80s standards.
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First Known Use of frumpy
circa 1840
FRUMPY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of frumpy for English Language Learners
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: dressed in an unattractive way; also of clothing : old and unattractive
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