unchic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of unchic
Example Sentences
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Until recently it was an unchic place, with overcrowded public housing “schemes,” manufacturing and gasworks — an area that no tourist would visit during my student days.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2016
It's no longer a rite of Broadway stardom to be wonderfully, whimsically unchic, as Sunday night's glittering Tonys red carpet showed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2015
For months, Hillary debated whether she should spend her entire vacation upstate and unchic to convince Empire State voters that she's no carpetbagger.
From Time Magazine Archive
But as she sits in a New York restaurant, dressed in black and adjusting her tortoiseshell glasses, she says she often feels unchic around her friends.
From Time Magazine Archive
He lives alone in a sixroom house in unchic Studio City with a swimming pool that, by Hollywood standards, is little more than a glorified bathtub.
From Time Magazine Archive
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