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Recent Examples of unhip
In the 2000 Loser, Jason Biggs plays Paul, a sweet but unhip Midwestern kid who gets a scholarship to NYU, only to be met with the sneering savagery of his rich-kid roommates.
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 July 2025
Chicago Bath House 1914 W. Division St., Chicago This Wicker Park bathhouse has been unabashedly unhip since 1906.
—Outside Online, 28 May 2025
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.
—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
Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 July 2025
Chicago Bath House 1914 W. Division St., Chicago This Wicker Park bathhouse has been unabashedly unhip since 1906.
—Outside Online, 28 May 2025
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unhip
uncool
Adjective
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Superman, despite his status as (arguably) the first superhero, and perhaps the most famous, has long been uncool.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
11 July 2025
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Third-wave feminism and its attendant media turned dieting (or at least talking about it) into something archaic and deeply uncool.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
25 June 2025
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“Unhip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unhip. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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