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frumpish
CIDE DICTIONARY
frumpish, a.
- Cross-tempered; scornful. [1913 Webster]
- Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress. [1913 Webster]"Our Bell . . . looked very frumpish." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
frumpish
beat-up, bedraggled, blowzy, careless, chintzy, dilapidated, dowdy, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, frowzy, frumpy, grubby, in rags, informal, loose, lumpen, messy, mussy, negligent, out-of-date, outmoded, poky, ragged, raggedy, ruinous, scraggly, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, sordid, squalid, stodgy, tacky, tattered, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidyROGET THESAURUS
frumpish
Sullenness
N sullenness, morosity, spleen, churlishness, irascibility, moodiness, perversity, obstinacy, torvity, spinosity, crabbedness, ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor, sulks, dudgeon, mumps, dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie, black looks, scowl, grouch, huff, sullen, sulky, ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill- disposed, grouty, in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor, out of temper, out of humor, knaggy, torvous, crusty, crabbed, sour, sour as a crab, surly, moody, spleenish, spleenly, splenetic, cankered, cross, crossgrained, perverse, wayward, humorsome, restiff, restive, cantankerous, intractable, exceptious, sinistrous, deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward, cussed, dogged, grumpy, glum, grim, grum, morose, frumpish, in the sulks, out of sorts, scowling, glowering, growling, grouchy, peevish.For further exploring for "frumpish" in Webster Dictionary Online