WALLFLOWER


Meaning of WALLFLOWER in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Beyond that, she had shown that women were capable of being more than simpering wallflowers, or unpaid housekeepers.

Hey, there are even pastels like peach and lilac this season, so nobody has to be a wallflower .

In fact you could say that I was a real wallflower .

It was cool and fresh in the summer, the back yard blooming with wallflowers and purple bells.

Sometimes, Joan was the dowdy, make-up-less wallflower with curves that looked more like sacks.

The worst of fates was to be a wallflower passed over and rejected.

They looked a little out of it, the wallflowers at the party.

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