Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Not stylish; unfashionable.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not in accord with or not following current fashion
- adj. lacking in style or elegance
Examples
“The man in my last long-term relationship dressed really understated, expensive and stylishly unstylish.”
“I was incredibly healthy, quite happy with life, so the only women I could hook up with were the odd, the unstylish, the ones who almost never used makeup and went walking around bra-less in tight t-shirts, so it wasn't so bad.”
“But all things pass and now I am a hopelessly unstylish chubby mess, back where I began.”
The Huffington Post: Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn: How Cintra Wilson Made Me Care About Fashion Again
“She moved her hand to her bodice and began to unbutton her fabulously unstylish Mary Astor-style dress.”
“An unstylish, unattractive or socially inept person; especially one slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits.”
“The only thing the first-person perspective does in this case is accentuate how totally bland and unstylish the character sounds.”
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“When one pictures a salty French fisherman bracing himself against sea spray and wind in a burly wool sweater, a modern-day slicker suddenly seems inauthentic, unstylish, wimpy and over-prepared.”
“The Roundabout Theatre Company's 2008 Broadway revival was dismayingly unstylish, so it's a pleasure to report that Shakespeare ”
“Generally, the cuff is standard on more unstylish fits," he says.”
The Wall Street Journal: To Pleat or Not to Pleat: the Lowdown on Pants
“Of course, when we grew older, we stopped obeying these directives and, each in our own way, challenged her views of appropriate dress: Katherine by becoming aggressively unstylish and even unkempt; Hannah by turning herself into a bombshell; and I by following every fashion trend, flattering or not, and then moving to New York and wearing nothing but black.”
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