unfashionable
adjective
un·fash·ion·able
ˌən-ˈfa-sh(ə-)nə-bəl 
1
: not in keeping with the current fashion
unfashionable clothes
2
: not favored socially
unfashionable neighborhoods
Examples of unfashionable in a Sentence
an old and unfashionable jacket that someone had donated to charity
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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
See All Example Sentences for unfashionable
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“Unfashionable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unfashionable. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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