Frumpery
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Frumpery is a noun meaning Frumpish appearance or behaviour.
Meaning
Frumpish appearance or behaviour.
Example Sentences
The flick he gave over her robe-clad body was dismissive, adding further to her feelings of frumpery.
Ladies of yesteryear toured world capitals in sedate linen dresses, but such priggish frumpery hardly presents Americans as the carefree, egalitarian, and sensuous people the viewers of dubbed Baywatch episodes have come to expect.
Word Forms
- frumperies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include frippery, frillery, flummery, fluffy, foible, puffery.
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