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  • adjective superlative form of frumpy: most frumpy.

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Examples

  • This is Mrs Tate, aka the frumpiest, dowdiest teacher known to man outside of a comedy, of course.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Glenn Dunks 2010

  • This is Mrs Tate, aka the frumpiest, dowdiest teacher known to man outside of a comedy, of course.

    Scream to Scream, Scene by Scene: SCENE 4 of Scream (0:18:23-0:18:38) Glenn Dunks 2010

  • All the design mojo AMC was famous for went into producing this frumpiest of vehicles, but it got me and my buddies back and forth to college for three years, and was relatively trustworthy.

    Peace, order and good government, eh?: February 2006 Archives 2006

  • But the vogue for putting down roots in the T.O. core - now some 40 years along, and showing no signs of slackening - has made even the frumpiest doubles desirable.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed John Bentley Mays 2012

  • So, I have been in the frumpiest of frumps lately.

    Adventures in Babywearing Adventures In Babywearing 2010

  • But he holds his own quite well against a Pat Boone wannabe, the frumpiest PTA lady central casting could find and the host Roberta Weintraub, who does quite an impressive spoken-word interpretation of

    Stephen W. Terrell's (MUSIC) Web Log 2010

  • Andrew R Tonry on Mon, Sep 6, 2010 frumpiest sports columnist, John Canzano, considers a minor-league baseball team necessary

    Portland Mercury 2010

  • Too many associations, too much of the ferment of memory and fancy, are somehow stirred; they beset me again, they hover and whirl about me while I stand, as I used to stand, within the positively sanctified walls of the shop (so of the _vieux temps_ now their aspect and fashion and worked system: by which I mean again of the frumpiest and civillest mid-Victorian), and surrender to the vision of the shelves packed with their rich individual trinities.

    A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879

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