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- adjective Not
fancy ; simple
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even in unfancy restaurants, the mark-ups are vertiginous.
Wine: You can count on barbera Anthony Quinn 2010
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JavaScript option offers 'unfancy' web development
Techworld.com News 2010
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The size of the so-called Passage Feydeau (which opened in 1791 and was demolished in 1824) can be judged by the number of its tenants: several milliners and haberdashers, two book stalls, a florist, a tobacconist, a stamp dealer, a chestnut seller, and, along the entire length of the upper floor, an estaminet (a distinctly unfancy type of café that permitted smoking).1
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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"It seems fancy," said art dealer Alberto "Tico" Mugrabi on the way in, "but it could go unfancy at any second."
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Books by TV journalists range from the charming to the useless, but they almost always have one thing in common -- they're about the journalist in question, the fancy people he or she has met, or the unfancy family that he or she came from.
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The size of the so-called Passage Feydeau (which opened in 1791 and was demolished in 1824) can be judged by the number of its tenants: several milliners and haberdashers, two book stalls, a florist, a tobacconist, a stamp dealer, a chestnut seller, and, along the entire length of the upper floor, an estaminet (a distinctly unfancy type of café that permitted smoking).1
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Indeed, like the click of a digital camera, almost as soon as dessert was served, things went unfancy.
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Christopher Acebo's unfancy unit set is a shallow, diagonally canted playing space in which the complex lighting of Christopher Akerlind creates the illusion of unexpected depth.
Hamlet the Hipster 2010
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Today it is a decidedly unfancy pub, which serves platters of local seafood, with as little done to them as possible.
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The size of the so-called Passage Feydeau (which opened in 1791 and was demolished in 1824) can be judged by the number of its tenants: several milliners and haberdashers, two book stalls, a florist, a tobacconist, a stamp dealer, a chestnut seller, and, along the entire length of the upper floor, an estaminet (a distinctly unfancy type of café that permitted smoking).1
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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