frumpy — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Tính từ

1. Dowdy, unkempt, or unfashionable.

   Ví dụ

   She came to the door in a frumpy housedress and bedroom slippers.

   Thêm ví dụ (1)

   Although still young at heart and head, he looks more and more like his old friend Archimedes, increasingly bearded and increasingly grey, with an otherworldly mien – a look that should earn him a spot in the online quiz featuring portraits of frumpy old men under the rubric “Prof or Hobo?”

2. Bad-tempered.

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Tính từ

1. primly out of date

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   dowdyfrumpish

   Ví dụ

   nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game