ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include frippery, frillery, flummery, fluffy, foible, puffery.

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