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Recent Examples of frumpy
The sweater has an oversized design that’s comfortable and cozy without looking frumpy.
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Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2024
This midi sweater dress has a slightly oversized design that feels cozy without looking frumpy.
—Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2024
Update your cozy-season essentials with sweaters and cardigans that are anything but frumpy.
—Victoria Montalti, refinery29.com, 7 Aug. 2024
Now, how does a frumpy liver doctor end up with a Vacheron Constantin?
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2024
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Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2024
This midi sweater dress has a slightly oversized design that feels cozy without looking frumpy.
—Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2024
Update your cozy-season essentials with sweaters and cardigans that are anything but frumpy.
—Victoria Montalti, refinery29.com, 7 Aug. 2024
Now, how does a frumpy liver doctor end up with a Vacheron Constantin?
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for frumpy
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There is no denying that Donald Trump has engaged in behavior that is unacceptable and unbecoming of any leader — let alone a president of the United States.Maggie Astor, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
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To have lived through an encompassing albeit unbecoming love and have survived it with all the parts of herself intact feels like a triumph.Vulture, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2022
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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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Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Palmer’s has gone viral on TikTok as an unaesthetic—yet nourishing and effective—skincare brand.Chaunie Brusie, RN, Parents, 5 Apr. 2024
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Figuring out exactly what is so repulsive about ketchup could also be helpful, Goldberg said.Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 9 Nov. 2024
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The retrograde Pierpoint trader played by Sagar Radia is perhaps the most overtly repulsive individual in an office already suffering from a workplace-culture problem.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2024
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More than a quarter of a century later, Foster will step onto that same field Saturday night needing to prove himself anew against another team wearing the loathsome cardinal and gold.Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
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Denzel Washington was gruesomely low down in the dirt as a cop willing to wield his privilege against vulnerable Black and brown communities in 2001’s admittedly loathsome Training Day.Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2024
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Factor in all the poor life choices college students are famed for and some extremely creative (if often disgusting) superpowers, then allow for The Boys' trademark ultraviolence, and one thing's for sure—the kids of Gen V are most definitely not alright.Matt Kamen, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
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Otherwise, the food product can end up greasy, spongy, or just plain disgusting.Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2024
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“Frumpy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frumpy. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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