frumpish

1 Those beloved, frumpish books gave off a smell that permeated the ward—like flannel pajamas that hadn’t been changed for a month, or like Irish stew.

2 But Mrs. Hansen showcased a broader range as the frumpish proprietor of an English seaside boardinghouse in Harold Pinter’s “The Birthday Party” at the Studio Theatre in 1986.

3 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.

4 What a different creature you would have been if I had had the placing you, instead of that crooked, frumpish old maid!...

5 “If you cannot see the difference between that frumpish gown of yours, with its little bobtails and fringes, and those pretty dresses before us, I must say you are as blind as a bat, Mattie.”

6 She held her head very high indeed, and would not speak to this doll because it was “frumpish,” or that doll because it was not in the same set as herself.

7 The worst he had expected was that she would be frumpish, or old-fashioned, or commonplace like these other women standing about, but it had not occurred to him that she might be conspicuously grotesque.

8 It does seem odd and frumpish not to be in Scotland, but motoring covers a multitude of social sins.

9 Kitty, fat and fashionable, and Di, slim and elaborately frumpish, came to meet me with pajama legs in their hands.

10 There were numbers of things to be done which did not involve frumpish utilitarian costumes, all caps and aprons.

11 She really looks a little frumpish out-of-doors, and perhaps that is why papa went on to Mrs. Carruthers.

12 The best people had played frumpish parts then.

13 Mrs. Flint was a rather frumpish individual, who always gave the impression of pieced-out dressmaking.

14 Naturally a girl like Di was enchanted to lead him about, tied to what would have been her apron strings if she'd been frumpish enough to wear such things.

15 The bears came next, horrid cunning white things, and turning in their toes like that does give them such a frumpish look.

16 To sum up the things you hated inordinately, they were friskiness of manner and of trimmings, and curls combined with rather bygone or frumpish fashions. 

17 I handed the guard a shilling, and he gave me a seat riding backwards in a carriage with seven other women, all very frumpish, but highly respectable.

18 Our Mary looked very frumpish.

我们的玛莉看起来非常老古板.

1 单调乏味的

frompy dull drab inanimate frumpy unstimulating unlively

2 乖张

frompy perverse frumpy vinegary contrariness bats

3 衣着过时的

dowdy

4 邋遢

frompy ongepotchket messy tacky scruffy grubby unkempt raunchy untidy squalid slouchy frumpy dowdy slipshod scuzzy frowsy slatternly sluttish slattern scroungy down-at-heel daggy warby draggletailed slovenly negligence squalor look like Mag's snatch

5 乖张的

frompy perverse frumpy vinegary bats

6 单调乏味

frompy dull drab inanimate frumpy unstimulating unlively ticky-tacky pedestrianism in the groove

7 脾气坏的

splenetical mean vicious grumpy cursed gruff streaky petulant grouchy morose cantankerous ornery churlish snagged bad-tempered splenetic acidulous liverish snaggy currish spleenful

8 衣着过时

dowdy dowdiness

9 邋遢的

frompy ongepotchket messy tacky scruffy grubby unkempt raunchy untidy squalid slouchy frumpy dowdy slipshod scuzzy frowsy slatternly sluttish slattern scroungy down-at-heel daggy warby draggletailed look like Mag's snatch

10 无魅力的

unappealing uninviting