Definition of UNFASHIONABLE

Examples of unfashionable in a Sentence

an old and unfashionable jacket that someone had donated to charity

Recent Examples on the Web My favorite stopgap-sport has been the unfashionable ballet of the green baize, also known as snooker. — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Vintage Snooker," 1 May 2020 Rendering Warholism unfashionable, by its own logic, is the same thing as killing it. — Stephen Metcalf, Los Angeles Times, "Review: Was Andy Warhol a saint or scourge, genius or dolt? A new biography befits a great life," 22 Apr. 2020 Get our daily newsletter Yet despite his blazing intuitions and his sense of the darker repercussions of technological progress, Wells is now an unfashionable figure. — The Economist, "H.G. Wells and the underbelly of modernity," 31 Oct. 2019 Much of it comes to us in a style that isn’t so much recherché as agreeably unfashionable, with frequent third-person Jamesian reflections on what one character means to another in abstract terms. — Jason Farago, The New York Review of Books, "Resistance Is Futile," 8 Apr. 2020 For decades, tattoos weren’t just unfashionable in religiously conservative Honduras. — New York Times, "No Longer Taboo, Tattoos Are Reclaimed by Hondurans to Express Love Not Hate," 22 Sep. 2019 But there’s a type of power, or something interesting, about unfashionable things too. — David Peisner, Billboard, "Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig Talks Staying 'On Your Own Trip' in a Changing Industry," 19 Sep. 2019 One of these kids is Issa (Issa Perica, in a taut, beautifully understated performance), a boy of 11 or so whose body is all angles and elbows, his hair shaped into an unfashionable point. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, "France's Oscar Entry Les Misérables Is an Invigorating Tale of Poverty and Revolt," 10 Jan. 2020 The namesake chain has struggled with merchandising issues, from ill-fitting garments to unfashionable looks to the wrong mix of tops and bottoms in its stores. — Sarah Halzack | Bloomberg, Washington Post, "Now the Gap Can Finally Move On," 8 Nov. 2019

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