frumpish
- s primly out of date
nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game
- Thomas Caldecot Chubb's somewhat frumpish but thoroughgoing biography should do a lot toward resurrecting him.
- Jane (Edna Best) is a rich, frumpish, middle-aged Liverpool widow, hard of head and blunt of speech.
- She had been frumpish; she became stylish.