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Recent Examples of frumpy The fabric is soft and has just enough stretch to move with you without looking frumpy or wrinkled. — Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2026 So, what's the key to inviting beanbags back into your home, without leaving your space feeling frumpy and undone? — 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 See All Example Sentences 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

Definition of frumpish

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Yet there is something singularly unbecoming about a franchise as American as Superman (and its adjuncts) being willfully stripped of its patriotism and good cheer.

— Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 11 July 2026
With nothing but the season at stake, Georgia won in a fashion most unbecoming a team that leads Division I in home runs.

— Ken Sugiura, AJC.com, 17 June 2026

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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
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

Definition of unaesthetic

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Deer-Proof Your Garden To keep your flowers from being gobbled up by deer—one of the most heartbreaking of all garden misfortunes—choose flowers that people find glorious and deer find disgusting.

— Mary Alice Russell, Southern Living, 13 July 2026
Where critics see disgusting piles of stuff, hoarders see more.

— Shivali H. Patra, Mercury News, 8 July 2026

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