How to Use uncool in a Sentence

uncool

adjective
  • It's uncool to lie to your friends.
  • Her parents' car is totally uncool.
  • At the time, it was considered the height of uncool by some of her friends.
    John Sandman, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
  • And Trump has helped make George W. Bush uncool with many of his supporters.
    James Barragán, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2021
  • And there was the tuna melt waiting for us, as uncool as ever.
    Rowan Jacobsen, Outside Online, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The place was a golf course—in other words, hopelessly uncool.
    Darrell Hartman, WSJ, 1 July 2021
  • This isn’t to say that the home run is somehow at risk of becoming wholly uncool.
    Emma Baccellieri, SI.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Haverda, meanwhile, is an ace as the new painfully uncool Forman kid on the block.
    Alexis Gunderson, Chron, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Over time, some harmful behaviors among youth go from cool to uncool to lame.
    Robert Zafft, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Jeremy Glass is a writer living in the uncool part of Brooklyn.
    Jeremy Glass, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • No matter how wide their brief became, my book would have been too uncool to truly fit on that list.
    Dan Kois, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Taurus April 20-May 20 Having a hobby that seems uncool might weigh on you right now.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Are there any unwritten rules among comics for what’s cool or uncool to wear when doing stand-up?
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Then the norm flipped and smoking became uncool, and fewer people smoked.
    Marshall Allen, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2020
  • If the restaurant’s small, awkwardly laid out and located somewhere uncool that’s kind of a pain to get to.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Boasting on social media about that trip to the Maldives has become deeply uncool, just like turning up at the school gates in a Land Rover.
    Chris Bryant | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 22 June 2019
  • The shift to Bbcore bats has helped on the high school level, but the padded caps approved for use haven't gained much traction among players: Too bulky, too hot, too uncool.
    SI.com, 24 Mar. 2014
  • Although seemingly uncool to his daughters, Saget's role goes down as one of the most beloved dads in TV history.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Luann de Lesseps is finding her cool after an uncool year!
    Dan Wakeford, PEOPLE.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Musings on pirate raves, double entrees, and when trying to be cool is very uncool.
    Derek Blasberg, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Rizz is just one of many new slang words that Generation Alpha kids use—making this Gen X mom feel very uncool.
    Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The super troupe – which consisted of two married couples – was long deemed uncool.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Nov. 2021
  • My father’s record collection had the effect of making music seem uncool to me.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • But most of the time, garage sale records are the unwanted discards, uncool selections cleared out from beneath the parents’ console stereo.
    Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2021
  • But Facebook itself, which was seen by some creators as old and uncool, has had a harder time attracting them.
    Kevin Roose, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2018
  • The band became a punchline for everything mediocre and uncool.
    Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
  • His college buddy Ken was Mr. Hsu’s uncool antipode, stiff-collared and focused on the future.
    Marc Weingarten, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2022
  • As the boy’s terminally uncool mother, McDormand’s Elaine is strong-willed and loving to a fault.
    Keaton Bell, Vogue, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Automotive trends cycle in and out, and what's completely uncool now might fetch big bucks on Bring a Trailer next decade.
    Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 30 May 2022
  • Yes, the music is cheesy and the transitions are terribly uncool, but Mother's Day is all about those kinds of corny displays of affection.
    Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 4 May 2020

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