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Recent Examples of unfashionable There were also dozens more Baroque paintings, many dating to the seventeenth century and acquired in the nineteen-eighties and nineties, when such works were unfashionable. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024 Frisco hooded peacoat: $15.19 Dog coats don’t need to be unfashionable. Christopher Murray, Fox News, 16 Jan. 2025 Iceland’s entry is radical in its unfashionable straightforwardness. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2025 Marino is an eclectic collector, often choosing unfashionable objects like cookie jars, or Renaissance and Baroque bronzes. Miles Socha, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for unfashionable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfashionable
Adjective
  • The app has a private messaging feature that can lead to inappropriate conversations with predators.
    Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Cornelius said that the superintendent later informed her of other prior incidents including her son — who has autism and is nonverbal — getting a shower without her permission, getting called vulgar names by staff and teachers, and receiving other inappropriate comments.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • If the new wells prove unsuitable for city use, the city has a contingency plan designed for rehabilitation.
    Kyle Martin, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Until now, scientists have generally thought that planets orbiting white dwarfs would be unsuitable for life because the dynamic temperature decrease of their dead parent star makes their atmospheres too unstable.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Although some posters online have suggested the streetlamp are emitting ultraviolet or black light, that's incorrect, Davis said.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025
  • When that happens, inferring eligibility based on the tax unit claiming the child would be incorrect.
    Elaine Maag, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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
  • In the case of the Ruscha photographs, computer vision was simply wrong.
    Sonja Drimmer, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
  • It’s been more than two years since a fiery derailment in rural Ohio made Norfolk Southern and the village of East Palestine household names for all the wrong reasons.
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Memorably dowdy fashion notwithstanding, the juicy role — part Nurse Ratched, part Jack Torrance — launched Bates into the Hollywood ether following years of false starts.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Jane and Kit stand on either side, looking dowdy in black dresses and veils (not really an Irish thing).
    Cullen Murphy, airmail.news, 15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • For such an inelegant behavior to be in chatbots as widespread and popular as GPT is a blunt reminder of two larger, seemingly contrary phenomena.
    Jonathan L. Zittrain, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The result has been a competition that has felt, at times, unwieldy and inelegant and exhausting.
    Sam Lee, The Athletic, 12 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The texture here is like a traditional cream; not overly rich, nor notably silky or tacky.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2025
  • For the handle, squeeze a drop of tacky glue onto each end of a 1-inch length of pipe cleaner and adhere it to one side of the box.
    Kimberly Stoney, Parents, 19 Mar. 2025

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“Unfashionable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfashionable. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.

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