frumpery
nounEtymology From frump + -ery.
1
Frumpish appearance or behaviour.
- 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.2005, Sharon Grehan, Random Acts of Malice, page 56:
- The flick he gave over her robe-clad body was dismissive, adding further to her feelings of frumpery.2014, Kate Meader, Hot and Bothered: