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Definition of schlumpy in English: schlumpyadjectiveschlumpiest, schlumpier ˈʃlʊmpiˈSHlo͝ompē North American informal Slovenly or scruffy. compared with the hip clientele, we felt a little schlumpy in our parkas Example sentencesExamples - For 30 years he's watched schlumpy executives and star athletes alike transform their lives.
- Though nothing she's wearing is so super-fancy, the accessories make what could be a schlumpy outfit somewhat upscale.
- When you are onstage, you want to feel pretty; you don't want to look schlumpy.
- I'm convinced that I could wear it and look stylish, not schlumpy.
- In person, he's friendly but ill at ease, a schlumpy professor in chinos and a beige button-down, who dislikes being interviewed, he says, owing to a few bad experiences with reporters.
- I'm in a schlumpy Santa Claus outfit.
- "Anyone who can get away with wearing flats at night and not looking schlumpy is OK in my book," the stylist remarked.
- His schlumpy attire, including floppy hats and baggy khakis, is pretty nondescript, but we did notice an interesting insignia on a puffy vest he was sporting.
- He can be self-deprecating, describing himself as ‘powerless and, well, schlumpy’.
- As schlumpy as those guys are, they've got the power.
- Her style was schlumpy, yet self-important.
- The male players tend to be either unabashedly schlumpy or sharply dressed in the manner of a Vegas hotel manager.
- Just because it's online video doesn't mean you can look schlumpy.
- There are some women who think motherhood is an excuse to wear a tattered, stained, wrinkled, baggy T-shirt with schlumpy pleated khakis and a pair of sneakers that look like you need to head for the hills if they ever took them off in your presence.
- I realized that it had finally happened: I had become one of those schlumpy women you see dragging a bunch of whiny kids around the shopping mall.
Synonyms shabby, worn, down at heel, shoddy, ragged, tattered, mangy, sorry, run down, disreputable
Origin1950s: from schlump + -y1. Definition of schlumpy in US English: schlumpyadjectiveˈSHlo͝ompē North American informal Slovenly or scruffy. compared with the hip clientele, we felt a little schlumpy in our parkas Example sentencesExamples - Just because it's online video doesn't mean you can look schlumpy.
- Her style was schlumpy, yet self-important.
- I realized that it had finally happened: I had become one of those schlumpy women you see dragging a bunch of whiny kids around the shopping mall.
- As schlumpy as those guys are, they've got the power.
- For 30 years he's watched schlumpy executives and star athletes alike transform their lives.
- The male players tend to be either unabashedly schlumpy or sharply dressed in the manner of a Vegas hotel manager.
- He can be self-deprecating, describing himself as ‘powerless and, well, schlumpy’.
- In person, he's friendly but ill at ease, a schlumpy professor in chinos and a beige button-down, who dislikes being interviewed, he says, owing to a few bad experiences with reporters.
- I'm in a schlumpy Santa Claus outfit.
- There are some women who think motherhood is an excuse to wear a tattered, stained, wrinkled, baggy T-shirt with schlumpy pleated khakis and a pair of sneakers that look like you need to head for the hills if they ever took them off in your presence.
- I'm convinced that I could wear it and look stylish, not schlumpy.
- When you are onstage, you want to feel pretty; you don't want to look schlumpy.
- Though nothing she's wearing is so super-fancy, the accessories make what could be a schlumpy outfit somewhat upscale.
- "Anyone who can get away with wearing flats at night and not looking schlumpy is OK in my book," the stylist remarked.
- His schlumpy attire, including floppy hats and baggy khakis, is pretty nondescript, but we did notice an interesting insignia on a puffy vest he was sporting.
Synonyms shabby, worn, down at heel, shoddy, ragged, tattered, mangy, sorry, run down, disreputable
Origin1950s: from schlump + -y. |