How To Use Unfashionable In A Sentence
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They use cheap materials and actually destroy a lot of decent furniture and fittings in the process - if something is considered unfashionable it gets taken out or painted over.
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Unless you've been hiding under an unfashionable rock for the past year, you'll have the word camel firmly rooted in your fashionista lexicon.
Philippa Young: Camel: It Doesn't Matter if You're Black or White
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As a poet, he is now unfashionable, so it is a moot question whether a play based on him can be of any current interest.
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I live on the unfashionable west side of Santa Fe, where the neighborhood is small and funky, adobe houses sitting in well-tended yards of flax and hollyhocks or the neglected ones of dirt and panic grass with a few old car parts thrown in.
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Port remains one of the most unfashionable fortified wines.
Times, Sunday Times
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Which is a great shame because in the current climate, where the love of reading and untempered enthusiasm for ideas is regarded as increasingly unfashionable, she remains one of the few consistently dissenting voices.
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Silver is still regarded by many as unfashionable: the stigma of poor-quality mid-to-late-twentieth-century reproduction silver has been hard to shake off.
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I had to wear all my brother's highly unfashionable cast-off clothes and the bathroom always stunk of Guinness.
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unfashionable clothes
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Wearing fur has become deeply unfashionable.
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Here Cecilia again met Miss Larolles, who came to make various remarks, and infinite ridicule, upon sundry unfashionable or uncostly articles in the dresses of the surrounding company; as well as to complain, with no little resentment, that Mr Meadows was again standing before the fire!
Cecilia
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Many of the pieces contain that strange instrument, the harmonium - so unfashionable now, but an item in many well-to-do 19 th-century homes.
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We have organic beef with almost-organic Yorkshire puddings (I'm unable to find organic lard - presumably it is just too unfashionable in green circles).
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Perhaps it was as well that continental drift was so profoundly unfashionable in the 1920s and 1930s.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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His immaculate suit, unfashionable haircut and adult ways made him instead look more like a parent than the screaming groupies that clamoured around the stage during the show.
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Apparently, this is an unfashionable part of fashionable Takapuna.
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She lived in a rather unfashionable part of London.
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It's a particularly unfashionable old hat that ought to have gone to the charity shop long ago.
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The man with the most infamous perm in Scottish football history proved that a goalkeeper from an unfashionable club can step up and do a job for Scotland.
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I feel like taking a baseball bat to the lot of them, although even then I'd probably pick an unfashionable brand of bat, or somehow manage to knock their brains out in a cluelessly passe kind of way – using an underarm swing when the overarm swipe's more "now", perhaps – and everyone would sneer at me, including the arresting officer.
Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: What Not To Wear
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The idea that the mentally ill might, in some circumstances, actually prefer to be with each other is now deeply unfashionable.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has always been drawn to unfashionable causes, from mental health to disability, just as he champions here overlooked countries and struggles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Englishman held a lofty finger in the air, and his flocculent hair blew upright in the sea breeze, giving him the look of an unfashionable popinjay.
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Subsequent wars and revolutions have made Kant's optimism unfashionable.
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The couple hold the unfashionable view that marriage is a sacred union.
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Perhaps it was as well that continental drift was so profoundly unfashionable in the 1920s and 1930s.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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It's hard enough to get people to use their canes or to wear unfashionable support stockings.
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But whilst sounding posh seems to have become deeply unfashionable amongst upper class youth, the lifestyle that goes with posh hasn't.
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But he chose the unfashionable business stream, and thence with unpaid work experience on the Times business desk.
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There he worked on the unfashionable inorganic chemistry; his science was always to be on the boundary of physics and chemistry.
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Yet choosing to adopt an unfashionable position takes a degree of resilience, and raises the risk that one might become a social pariah.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has become unfashionable for women to talk about laundry and washing machines in polite society, as if doing so somehow demonstrated the limits of their worldly interests.
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So, intellectually unfashionable but undaunted, the idea of Utopia abandoned the world altogether and was launched into space.
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Their continued popularity is, I suspect, due to their unfashionable, housewifely nature.
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It always seemed to me inexplicable that someone like Waterhouse was so popular, yet so unfashionable.
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His clothes are old and unfashionable, but nevertheless he has a real touch of class.
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But coming from them, that could also be seen as an attempt to play down the hunting connection, almost as if they were ashamed of holding such unfashionable views.
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It is now an unfashionable idea that seems donnish and patronising.
Times, Sunday Times
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The film comes through as 1.85: 1, but is letterboxed into 2.35: 1, something incredibly unfashionable in these days of plentiful anamorphic widescreen transfers.
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This unfashionable voyeurism is perhaps the reason why British mainstream channels left live transmission of the event to Sky broadcasting corporation.
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The Playfair business was a respectable business to buy; the Plummer Place, though it stood in an unfashionable outskirt, was a respectable place to settle in; and the minister, in casting his lot in Elgin, envisaged John Murchison as part of it, thought of him confidently as a "dependance," saw him among the future elders and office-bearers of the congregation, a man who would be punctual with his pew-rent, sage in his judgements, and whose views upon church attendance would be extended to his family.
The Imperialist
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It was at the time an unfashionable view, and medical colleagues were scornful.
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The couple hold the unfashionable view that marriage is a sacred union.
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It may be an increasingly unfashionable view, but the roles should not be so blurred.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some of Hamilton's biologist colleagues were therefore embarrassed by his conversion to an unfashionable conspiracy theory.
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She jumped into a blow-by-blow description of how tacky and cheap and unfashionable Mrs. Glum's latest get-up was.
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Perhaps this explains why silk, deeply unfashionable in carpets for more than a decade, has enjoyed an unexpected revival.
Times, Sunday Times
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The couple hold the unfashionable view that marriage is a sacred union.
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It is now an unfashionable idea that seems donnish and patronising.
Times, Sunday Times
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Early on she realised she had to expand outside investment trusts, which were deeply unfashionable.
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His views were deeply unfashionable in 1928 and they are unfashionable still.
Times, Sunday Times
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Best though it was, his suit smacked of cheap tailoring and bucolic unfashionableness.
THE THORN BIRDS
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There he worked on the unfashionable inorganic chemistry; his science was always to be on the boundary of physics and chemistry.
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A moral climate has been created in which collective responsibility has become unfashionable.
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This isn't a terribly fashionable approach, but like all things unfashionable, it contains a grain of truth.
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Grudgingly, we all confessed to feelings of loyalty, however unfashionable that might be.
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Wearing fur has become deeply unfashionable.
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The popular image of polka as unfashionable is often simply mockery of working-class folks.
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It was an upbeat but terminally untrendy style that was never going to find favour in Britain, but he displayed an astute eye by wowing new audiences in untapped, unfashionable places.
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But thrift has become unfashionable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is the pareo , or sarong, now deeply unfashionable?
Covering a Multitude of Beach Sins
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So for an essay in popular science, the book's style is distinctly unfashionable.
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As to mobiles, I have a three-year-old cheapo pay-as-you-go that doesn't take pictures or show videos, which, I realise, makes me hideously unfashionable.
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Clean-cut, in sharp suits, and with short hair at a time when that was unfashionable, they prowled around muttering into wires that protruded from their shirt cuffs.
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How can these deeply unfashionable assertions be true?
Times, Sunday Times
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The superlative handling seems at odds with the ride height, which is greater than your average saloon, adding to the unfashionable ‘upright’ feel of the package as a whole.
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Apart from that, the writing has a deeply unfashionable warmth, humanity and sincerity.
Times, Sunday Times
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He played up to having won some credibility after decades of being deeply unfashionable within the music industry by acquiring a more contemporary look on stage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its name alone surely proves how quickly the unfashionable can become fashionable.
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There he worked on the unfashionable inorganic chemistry; his science was always to be on the boundary of physics and chemistry.
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They use cheap materials and actually destroy a lot of decent furniture and fittings in the process - if something is considered unfashionable it gets taken out or painted over.
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
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Repairing wrecked companies is a tricky task, whether they are in fashionable businesses like telecoms, or deeply unfashionable metal-bashing.
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The garden she made is so well known today and has been so influential, that it is difficult to remember how unfashionable formal gardens, knots and topiary once were.
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Their writing gets fashionable, then unfashionable, then fashionable again.
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Amid all this optimism, it has become deeply unfashionable to talk about some of the less favourable trends on the continent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many IT experts are neither unfashionable nor socially inept.
Times, Sunday Times
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The book covers some strong ground and kind of calling people back to an unapologetic, unfashionable view of life, church and ministry.
Christianity Today
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In the first half the set piece - so recently unfashionable in certain rugby union circles - was the epicentre of the match.
Times, Sunday Times
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Political economy has become a slightly unfashionable term.
Times, Sunday Times
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What is most attractive about Elie's book is its earnest and unfeigned passion for such a worthy but unfashionable subject.
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Personally, I hold to a somewhat optimistic - and rather unfashionable in the present age of clamorous and overassertive Deconstructivism - view that system and structure (and consequently - progress and consolidating knowledge), as far as literary theory is concerned, are not dirty words.
Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality
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But let me offer you an unfashionable set of views.
Times, Sunday Times
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He became an expert on Ash in Ash's most unfashionable days.
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Alas impromptu recitation of poetry is rather unfashionable in pubs in Toronto - and the locals would never understand the bawdier versions of Christmas Day In The Workhouse, a personal favourite.
Cryptic crossword No 25,200
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In my latest book, I wanted to fly the kite for an unfashionable theory.
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There is an unfashionable cross-party consensus that they could do more.
Times, Sunday Times
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In my latest book, I wanted to fly the kite for an unfashionable theory.
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In the past few years the name has become deeply unfashionable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Military coups are unfashionable in European and wannabe European countries these days, so the military dictatorship weakens and the popular element — Islamic, antisemitic, antiKurdish, antidemocratic, antimodern — rises.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Let Turkey Have Gaza
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It does so with a pretelevision, prevideogame sensibility, and also by embracing a view of gender that has been unfashionable in recent decades: that frogs and snails and puppy dogs’ tails are more than lines in a nursery rhyme, and that boys are by nature hard-wired differently than girls.
The Dangerous Book for Boys « Reading Copy
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I believe in the unfashionable proposition that accessibility is a literary virtue.
Do I fall through what I might of been?
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His immaculate suit, unfashionable haircut and adult ways made him instead look more like a parent than the screaming groupies that clamoured around the stage during the show.
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We await incautious politicians with the courage to pursue their unfashionable convictions.
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The stiff upper lip became deeply unfashionable.
The Sun
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The dapper pink gladioli I planted last spring near the boxwood hedge had finally bloomed, the blush-pink peonies—unfashionable but one of my favourites—were out after I had given up on them, and the air smelled of fresh earth and honeysuckle.
Exit the Actress
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I can get goat's cheese with apricot chutney and rocket on olive flavoured focaccia, but cheddar and Branston on white sliced seems to be terminally unfashionable.
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Instinct has become unfashionable because of its association with an erroneous theory of development.
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At one stage she was told no woman editor in London would touch her novel with a barge pole because it was so unfashionable to have a story about a kept woman.
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The Tricorn is also one of the best examples of the architectural megastructure (in Britain at least), a concept that was unfashionable practically as soon as it was mooted.
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His cooking is unshowy, unfashionable, unchanging.
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It's desperately unfashionable to like country music but I get a warm glow inside when I know that Emmylou doesn't share her charms with everyone.
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And you thought it was just about underoccupied celebs tooling around in unfashionable trousers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wearing fur has become deeply unfashionable.
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Whoever placed her feet, in their unfashionable lace-up shoes, left one askew, giving her a knock-kneed appearance.
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This view rests on a radical simplification and is now unfashionable.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Fern gardens were not at all unusual then but, for whatever reason, they became unfashionable and for years now the only place you could find them would be in the tropical houses at Kew.
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melodrama of a now unfashionable kind
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The couple hold the unfashionable view that marriage is a sacred union.
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Conveniently, we passed a bin and Floyd tossed the unfashionable pair of sunnies into the plastic container.
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The unfashionable tricoloured crew earned this win with some commendable determination, and after losing midfield, and only scoring four times from play from the eight forwards.
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It is unfashionable to say so, but there is something powerfully evocative about this block of stone.
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All are deeply unfashionable and pay low or no dividends.
Times, Sunday Times
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As long as there is reasonable underlying demand, then if a business is deeply unfashionable, all the better.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a particularly unfashionable old hat that ought to have gone to the charity shop long ago.
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Younger consumers, it is said, regard their products as stodgy and unfashionable.
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When and why did the melodrama become so unfashionable?
Times, Sunday Times
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She lived in a rather unfashionable part of London.
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It's become very unfashionable to read the Classics, the Greeks and the Romans, and their literature.
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Sometimes players from so-called unfashionable clubs can struggle with the change of style, but our players are used to it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Port remains one of the most unfashionable fortified wines.
Times, Sunday Times
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And because it was unfashionable, it was cheaper than other, more showy but less efficient vehicles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Clare, that rare beast, a loquacious listener, is a very social animal with an unfashionable belief that the society we are born into determines our fates at least as much as our genes.
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What is really worrying is that if art is fashionable to own, then what happens when it becomes unfashionable?
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Such views now appear unfashionable both in Russia and in its church.
Times, Sunday Times
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His views may be unfashionable but he deserves a hearing.
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Not that being unfashionable again will be any great disaster.
Times, Sunday Times
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The couple hold the unfashionable view that marriage is a sacred union.
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It has become unfashionable for women to talk about laundry and washing machines in polite society, as if doing so somehow demonstrated the limits of their worldly interests.
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Giving away your most unfashionable clothes to charity ( without you realising ).
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Smoking is the most romantic suicide possible; it certainly isn't possible to say that smoking is profoundly unfashionable today - it patently is.
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And what Carter did is still very unfashionable.
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The unfashionable tricoloured crew earned this win with some commendable determination, and after losing midfield, and only scoring four times from play from the eight forwards.
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In that they are deeply unfashionable, have been around for ages and rarely pick up any rave reviews.
The Sun
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With his aquiline profile, unfashionable dress, strange accent and flowing locks of chestnut-brown hair, John James Audubon must have drawn curious stares from onlookers.