as in inappropriate
marked by an obvious lack of style or good taste
an old and unfashionable jacket that someone had donated to charity
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Recent Examples of unfashionable
King-Hammond suggested yet another factor: his focus on people, and not formalist ideas, was unfashionable in the eyes of art history’s shapers.
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Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 25 Feb. 2025
But here’s the thing: these seemingly unfashionable socks are more than just a snug and stretchy medical necessity.
—Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 30 Jan. 2025
It's never really been unfashionable to wear a bow in your hair; it's just been extra-super-trendy for the last year or two.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 13 Feb. 2025
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
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Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 25 Feb. 2025
But here’s the thing: these seemingly unfashionable socks are more than just a snug and stretchy medical necessity.
—Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 30 Jan. 2025
It's never really been unfashionable to wear a bow in your hair; it's just been extra-super-trendy for the last year or two.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 13 Feb. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfashionable
Adjective
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Last season, Horner also came under scrutiny during an investigation into inappropriate and controlling behavior towards a female employee.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
9 July 2025
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Outrageous videos of purple-haired teachers voicing deeply political and inappropriate content on social media often reach millions of people, creating the false impression that teachers are generally unhinged and want to use their perch to push a personal agenda.—
Carrie Lukas,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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There’s also the risk that the new genes are unsuitable for Florida waters, and any interbreeding would weaken local stock.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
3 July 2025
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Washing Windows Cleaning windows works best in good lighting to achieve a streak-free finish, making nighttime an unsuitable time for the task.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 June 2025
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Rumors the man lost a limb are incorrect, friends of the victim with Raw Surf posted on the business' Facebook page.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
8 July 2025
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An online commercial real estate site, LoopNet.com, still showed the theater property as up for auction Thursday, but Robinson said the listing is incorrect.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 July 2025
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Only this time, Trump’s ambush was far more clearly choreographed, and thus somewhat less unstylish.—
Jonny Steinberg,
Time,
22 May 2025
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The sequences in which the crew shoots the movie also provide some of the most memorable technical flourishes for a film that’s largely sturdy and relatively unstylish, and Saleh has a bit of fun staging his tense thriller on some cheap looking soundstages.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
19 May 2025
Adjective
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However, according to the Baseball Rules Academy, the umpires got the call wrong.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
5 July 2025
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One of the company’s big assumptions about the phone had turned out to be wrong.—
Verne Kopytoff,
Fortune,
5 July 2025
Adjective
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The dowdy and shy Ursula is diabetic and has lost her eyesight in one eye.—
Michelle F. Solomon,
Miami Herald,
15 May 2025
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Machi plays a dowdy tax inspector closing in on a Shakira-style Latina singer for tax fraud.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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Their ingenious creation — an unlikely combination of spacesuit parts, duct tape, and the suddenly obsolete mission plan — encapsulates the film in an inelegant nutshell.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
30 June 2025
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In Dogma, however, there’s value in his casual, inelegant approach.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
6 June 2025
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The wedding is a predictably tacky affair given that the groom is Kirby Kowalczyk (Haley Joel Osment), the creator of the BALLZilla energy drink and its associated MLM scheme.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
3 July 2025
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Water Tower does not need more dentist’s offices or cosmetic surgeons or tacky torture museums.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
2 July 2025
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“Unfashionable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfashionable. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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