unchic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From un- + chic.
Meanings
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unfashionable
The sole image of Henry Cavendish captured in his lifetime shows an aristocratic-looking man in a frock coat, frilled shirt-wrists, and white stockings, wearing a knocker-tailed periwig under a black three-cornered hat. This was a defiantly unchic style of dress even in the late 1700s, and he wore the same outfit every day of his adult life.
2015, Steve Silberman, chapter 1, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New York: Avery, →ISBN, page 20:By 1936, Coward’s unchic loathing of appeasement and Neville Chamberlain (“that bloody conceited old sod”) was turning him into something of a Churchill bore.
2008 April 13, Stephen Koch, “The Playboy Was a Spy”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most unchic | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more unchic | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |