frumpily

But even women in law firms aren't expected to "dress frumpily."

Archive 2008-02-01 Peggy 2008

But even women in law firms aren't expected to "dress frumpily."

Female Academics Should Emulate Old Farts? Peggy 2008

Everywhere around all of them were children, something we should have more of at Western book expos, and then the frumpily dressed intellectuals of Egypt, in suits a size too big, a few years too old.

Michael Luongo: Beirut Book Fair for Gay Travels in the Muslim World: Day One 2009

The Whitney clan clustered around "Woman with Dog" -- a frumpily photo-realistic Duane Hanson sculpture.

Pictures From An Exhibition 2008

Anon - I hear you, but I don't think I was dressed frumpily.

One Bright Star (1B*) Reignited 2006

I was willing to bet she'd arrived in the minivan now sitting frumpily among the other vehicles pulled up to the wire strung between white posts to separate the gravel parking lot from the grass of the churchyard.

Grave Surprise Harris, Charlaine 2006

Now when I think of the New Willard, I see frumpily dressed dowagers talking through their lorgnettes to moth-eaten senators.

Vignettes of San Francisco Almira Bailey

Under the proposed law, not only would she have to be more frumpily attired, she would also have to go for something far cheaper.

The Guardian World News Jon Boone 2011

In the YouTube video of that performance, you see a pretty, kittenish, frumpily dressed brunette, an alumna of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a first-rate Manhattan private school, who was at that time enrolled in New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She sings with style and conviction but betrays few hints of the pop superstar she was soon to become-after "the transformation," as Gorka referred to it.

The New Yorker 2010

TV's delightful, insightful, frumpily-attired NFL analyst for three decades probably has earned the time off.

American Chronicle 2009