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Definition of Frumpily
1. Adverb. In a dowdy unfashionable manner. "She dresses dowdily"
Definition of Frumpily
1. Adverb. In a frumpy manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frumpily
1. frumpy [adv] - See also: frumpy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frumpily
Literary usage of Frumpily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Art and Man: Comparative Art Studies by Edwin Swift Balch (1918)
"A flashily dressed man in the street or a frumpily dressed woman at a ball,
violate this canon of art, and people who see them often instinctively comment ..."
2. Crowds; a Moving-picture of Democracy by Gerald Stanley Lee (1913)
"... frumpily happy children, the stored-up sunshine of a thousand years all shining
faintly out through the dirt, out through the generations in their ..."
3. Vignettes of San Francisco by Almira Bailey (1921)
"Now when I think of the New Willard, I see frumpily dressed dowagers talking
through their lorgnettes to moth-eaten senators. The Selbach in Louisville, ..."
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