unchic

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Recent Examples of unchic Emily Ratajkowski Makes the Case for Techy Earphones Tech accessories are often very unchic. Vogue, 3 Oct. 2019 Under other circumstances, this hour might have seemed unchic, even geriatric, but these were unusual circumstances indeed. Lesley M.m. Blume, Town & Country, 15 July 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unchic
Adjective
  • Marino is an eclectic collector, often choosing unfashionable objects like cookie jars, or Renaissance and Baroque bronzes.
    Miles Socha, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
  • In a squad enriched with European pedigree, Cash is one of the more unfashionable players, less flashy, more functional.
    Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • As Burroughs’s alter ego, a blundering heroin addict pining after a younger man, the actor manages to be uncool onscreen for the first time ever.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Jennifer Lawrence was the most successful actress of her generation, an Oscar winner by 23, with an unpretentious persona that sat in stark contrast to the theater-kid affectations of Anne Hathaway, who suddenly seemed extremely uncool.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • This is particularly true when the prevailing stereotypes are based on outmoded information.
    Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • More than half of federal prison facilities were built before 1991 and many are becoming outmoded or obsolete, the agency said.
    Michael R. Sisak and Michael Balsamo, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • That’s so great in the book, having that perspective on somebody’s darkest, deepest, most unattractive, unflattering thoughts.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The once objectively unattractive 53-year-old has drastically altered his appearance with a very obvious hair transplant.
    Alexandra Bregman, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • She’s come a long way from Marianne’s dowdy school uniform.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2024
  • World-renowned for its cashmere, buttery leather, and tailored wool, Italian winter fashion leaves no room for dowdy sweatpants and sweatshirts.
    Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The piece is an antique that wasn't fashionable for many decades, but many jewels once considered fussy or unstylish have now been embraced again.
    Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Slippery soles, cold toes, and unstylish footwear should be avoided at all costs.
    Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 29 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • More importantly, the growing outrage over the high rejection rate among California applicants forced UC to cap its out-of-state students at 18% for most of its campuses and attempt to grow its collective student body.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • People throughout Wisconsin ― as well as out-of-staters with ties to Wisconsin or the dairy industry ― started making day trips to the farm.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • There is no denying that Donald Trump has engaged in behavior that is unacceptable and unbecoming of any leader — let alone a president of the United States.
    Maggie Astor, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • To have lived through an encompassing albeit unbecoming love and have survived it with all the parts of herself intact feels like a triumph.
    Vulture, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2022

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“Unchic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unchic. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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