The French country people are almost as frumpy as the English, only in a different way, but many of the guests were very smart, and of course had come from Paris.

There were such a lot of funny frumpy people at the other end of the room"the rabble," Mrs. Pike called them.

Of course, she's kind of frumpy and terribly old.

To recognize her old enemy in the Marquise de Trezac who so frequently figured in the Parisian chronicle was the more irritating to Undine because her intervening social experiences had caused her to look back on Nettie Wincher as a frumpy girl who wouldn't have "had a show" in New York.

A rather frumpy old bachelor, with thinning hair and a thickening neck.

Mary Gowd, with her frumpy English hat and her dreadful English fringe, and her brick-red English cheeks, which not even the enervating Italian sun, the years of bad Italian food or the damp and dim little Roman room had been able to sallow.