unmodishadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈməʊdɪʃ/, U.S. /ˌənˈmoʊdɪʃ/, /ˌənˈmɑdɪʃ/ Unfashionable. Also: indifferent to fashion.
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the mind > attention and judgement > unfashionableness > [adjective]
infashionable1640
unfashionable1660
unmodishc1665
unpolite1741
démodé1871
naff1964
switched-off1964
out1966
schleppy1966
dorky1970
dorked-out1974
c1665 Countess of Warwick in C. Fell-Smith M. Rich Countess of Warwick (1901) 327 To be so unmodish as..to walk in the straight and holy path.
1672 J. Phillips Montelions Predict. 4 To offer more Reasons..would be absurd and unmodish.
1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Toilet 21 At Chapel..Who..appears at those unmodish Hours But Ancient Matrons?
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. Pref. p. i [I am] so impoliticly unmodish, that I never can speak one thing when I mean another.
1845 J. Scott Sportsman's Repository 203 We shall be further blamed, no doubt, for our rough and unmodish style of calling men and things by their proper names.
1899 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 380/1 Savoir-faire yielded itself finally to a tempest of most unmodish snufflings and sobbings.
1949 Poetry Jan. 226 His faults are..as unmodish as it is possible for faults to be: they are Victorian faults.
1977 Mod. Lang. Rev. 72 402 Professor Davie has used a discerning taste and unmodish attitude to bring together an unusual collection of poems.
2009 M. Perry Coop 273 They are wearing big belt buckles or unmodish jeans.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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