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Recent Examples of frumpy
Lots of volume Styling your sleeveless knit with voluminous silhouettes—like a puff-sleeve blouse and/or billowy pants—may sound, well, frumpy.
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Kelsey Stewart, Glamour, 29 Sep. 2025
Uniqlo saw an opportunity to transform fleece jackets from frumpy technical gear into a stylish, affordable basic by manufacturing at scale.
—Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
The top has a relaxed, slouchy silhouette that’s far from frumpy.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
The rather elegant pool house built there by FDR, for example, was planked over during the Nixon administration in order to build the current, somewhat frumpy Press Room.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 1 Aug. 2025
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Kelsey Stewart, Glamour, 29 Sep. 2025
Uniqlo saw an opportunity to transform fleece jackets from frumpy technical gear into a stylish, affordable basic by manufacturing at scale.
—Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
The top has a relaxed, slouchy silhouette that’s far from frumpy.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
The rather elegant pool house built there by FDR, for example, was planked over during the Nixon administration in order to build the current, somewhat frumpy Press Room.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 1 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for frumpy
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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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Schiffl, the provost's spokesperson, says the nuns' social media presence is unbecoming of their order and that their superiors take a dim view of it.—
Esme Nicholson,
NPR,
4 Nov. 2025
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This is unbecoming of the office.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Sep. 2025
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
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Not only are the views, of course, often repulsive, but the actual form of argument is not argument… That’s what interests me, that even the most basic principles that people have worked on for 2,000 years to establish what a fact means…gone.—
Josh Zajdman,
Vogue,
28 Oct. 2025
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Buffalo Ranch Popcorn This flavor concept is a beautiful fantasy and repulsive reality.—
Alex Beggs,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
28 Oct. 2025
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The statement infuriated some members of the LGBTQ+ community — a sizable segment of her fan base — for whom Kirk was a loathsome and dangerous figure.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Nov. 2025
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In Del Toro’s film, the creature isn’t rejected for his loathsome appearance but for his apparent stupidity.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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By modern standards, kind of disgusting.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
7 Nov. 2025
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But stepping into that closet was really disgusting.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Frumpy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frumpy. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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