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Recent Examples of frumpy
So, what's the key to inviting beanbags back into your home, without leaving your space feeling frumpy and undone?
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Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 May 2026
Reed was not the typical dowdy or frumpy critic.
—Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
Dry Goods and its sibling stores, Wild Life and Workshop, had music from former first lady of France Carla Bruni playing over the stereo and were heavy on Belgian and Japanese lines that were equal parts luxurious (silk) and frumpy (boxy).
—Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 28 Apr. 2026
Proving that flat shoes don’t have to be frumpy, these backless burgundy mules look so elegant when paired with a cream silk midi dress.
—Clare Holden, Glamour, 25 Mar. 2026
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Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 May 2026
Reed was not the typical dowdy or frumpy critic.
—Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
Dry Goods and its sibling stores, Wild Life and Workshop, had music from former first lady of France Carla Bruni playing over the stereo and were heavy on Belgian and Japanese lines that were equal parts luxurious (silk) and frumpy (boxy).
—Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 28 Apr. 2026
Proving that flat shoes don’t have to be frumpy, these backless burgundy mules look so elegant when paired with a cream silk midi dress.
—Clare Holden, Glamour, 25 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for frumpy
Adjective
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In short, the frumpish foursome were suggesting that holders of the top judicial office, current and former, tried to influence justice by shunting cases towards particular judges.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
18 Jan. 2018
Adjective
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If those with the strongest case to make against injustice could refuse the psychic consolations of victimhood, then there is something especially unbecoming in white Americans learning to speak the language of racial grievance.—
Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
8 June 2026
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Devon Toews made costly mistakes unbecoming of a player of his caliber.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
27 May 2026
Adjective
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As a child, Salinas spent countless hours in his father’s sooty workshop, watching him transform unshapely metal into useful objects.—
Elisabeth Biondi,
The New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2019
Adjective
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Lamar’s performance of his slanderous mambo was the only real moment of drama and tension amid the Philadelphia Eagles’ unaesthetic beatdown of the Kansas City Chiefs.—
Armin Rosen,
The Washington Examiner,
25 July 2025
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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
Adjective
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This provision is equally repulsive.—
Austin Elias-de Jesus,
New Yorker,
3 June 2026
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And Mary’s electric, palpably physical pursuit of justice becomes even more crucial in the final act, after a grotesque display of performative mockery toward Māori culture fractures the last remnants of civility present amid one of Cole’s lavish-yet-repulsive gatherings.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
17 May 2026
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Platner is loathsome in so many ways.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
3 June 2026
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Assayas’s aesthetic is too genteel to even imagine the specifics of loathsome doctrines.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
13 May 2026
Adjective
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The president announced the work in April during an unrelated Oval Office appearance, saying he was inspired by complaints from a friend visiting from Germany who called the pool dark and disgusting.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
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Seeing a game get shipped off to a foreign land for no good reason is even more disgusting.—
Austin Perry OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
3 June 2026
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“Frumpy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frumpy. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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