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Recent Examples of unhip
Being a conservative means being proudly unhip, yet few Americans — Bible-toters, teetotalers, or not — can resist the urge to be one of the Cool Kids.
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Armond White, National Review, 21 Feb. 2024
That’s a niche too small and too cool for my unhip existence.
—Lauren Joseph, Bon Appétit, 22 Nov. 2023
Marie Callender’s are proudly unhip, with a lot of wood, dark carpeting, antiques and old lamps.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
For many of today’s active grandparents — who feel anything but old and stodgy — the terms Grandma and Grandpa have the decidedly unhip whiff of talcum powder, blue hair rinse and dentures.
—Laurie Yarnell, Good Housekeeping, 27 Oct. 2020
Aloha Fridays were a fixture of a certain kind of workplace, and everyone—from Elvis to the decidedly unhip Richard Nixon—seemed to have an aloha shirt.
—Teddy Brokaw, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2020
The company utterly failed at nearly every aspect of this endeavor, proudly unveiling a slow and a tragically unhip device with an unfinished operating system at an iPhone-worthy price.
—Christopher Null, Wired, 24 Dec. 2019
Lately, a wave of stylishly sullen young artists, many in rap, has excavated the painfully unhip, angsty subcultures of the 1990s and 2000s.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 June 2018
In a bleak, distinctly unhip neighborhood of Brooklyn, Kyra, a middle-aged woman, is struggling to survive.
—Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
Armond White, National Review, 21 Feb. 2024
That’s a niche too small and too cool for my unhip existence.
—Lauren Joseph, Bon Appétit, 22 Nov. 2023
Marie Callender’s are proudly unhip, with a lot of wood, dark carpeting, antiques and old lamps.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
For many of today’s active grandparents — who feel anything but old and stodgy — the terms Grandma and Grandpa have the decidedly unhip whiff of talcum powder, blue hair rinse and dentures.
—Laurie Yarnell, Good Housekeeping, 27 Oct. 2020
Aloha Fridays were a fixture of a certain kind of workplace, and everyone—from Elvis to the decidedly unhip Richard Nixon—seemed to have an aloha shirt.
—Teddy Brokaw, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2020
The company utterly failed at nearly every aspect of this endeavor, proudly unveiling a slow and a tragically unhip device with an unfinished operating system at an iPhone-worthy price.
—Christopher Null, Wired, 24 Dec. 2019
Lately, a wave of stylishly sullen young artists, many in rap, has excavated the painfully unhip, angsty subcultures of the 1990s and 2000s.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 June 2018
In a bleak, distinctly unhip neighborhood of Brooklyn, Kyra, a middle-aged woman, is struggling to survive.
—Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
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“Unhip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unhip. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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