unfashionable

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adjective un·fash·ion·able \ ˌən-ˈfa-sh(ə-)nə-bəl \

Definition of unfashionable

1 :not in keeping with the current fashion

unfashionable clothes

2 :not favored socially

unfashionable neighborhoods

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unfashionableness

play \ˌən-ˈfa-sh(ə-)nə-bəl-nəs\ noun

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unfashionably

play \ˌən-ˈfa-sh(ə-)nə-blē\ adverb

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Examples of unfashionable in a Sentence

an old and unfashionable jacket that someone had donated to charity

Recent Examples of unfashionable from the Web

This alternative mode of politics emphasizes virtues that might have grown unfashionable but are nevertheless necessary, including modesty, tolerance, and moral imagination.

— fred bauer, National Review, "Rebuilding the Public Square after Charlottesville," 18 Aug. 2017
The idea of communal responsibility and communal heroism and what can be achieved through community is unfashionable.

— eliza berman, Time, "Christopher Nolan: Dunkirk Is My Most Experimental Film Since Memento," 19 July 2017
Subaru has done its part to preserve an otherwise unfashionable style, recasting the wagon as an outdoorsy hiking shoe that isn’t an SUV.

— david beard, Car and Driver, "2018 Buick Regal TourX Dissected: Exterior, Chassis, Powertrain, and More!," 5 July 2017
O'Shea's references come from pop culture, mostly '90s and early '00s film and music, and are all either conspicuously on the nose (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Strokes) or unexpectedly unfashionable (Beetlejuice, Faith No More).

— noah johnson, GQ, "Justin O’Shea Debuts SSS World Corp With a Guerrilla Fashion Show in the Streets of Paris," 24 June 2017
Dreams of unfashionable, politically incorrect, old American aspirations that our generation isn’t supposed to believe in anymore.

— gene tempest, New York Times, "What No One Ever Tells You About Tiny Homes," 2 June 2017
A British Prime Minister with a comfortable lead in the polls calling an early election to strengthen her mandate to negotiate Brexit, up against a supposedly weak opposition leader from the unfashionable far left of his party.

— jane merrick, CNN, "Jeremy Corbyn: An anti-establishment underdog who's got the 'X Factor'," 31 May 2017
Notre Dame is a campus where deliberation is welcomed, where opposing views are debated, and where every speaker, no matter how unpopular or unfashionable, is afforded the right to air their views in the open for all to hear.

— time staff, Time, "Mike Pence at Notre Dame: 'The Future Is Yours'," 22 May 2017
The now-unfashionable production choices of the original recording (those dewy keyboards!) remained in this arrangement, somewhat endearingly.

— spencer kornhaber, The Atlantic, "Celine Dion Saved the Billboard Music Awards," 22 May 2017

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