uncool

Example Sentences

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That some things are tasteless not because they’re uncool, per se, but because they are, as Hayao Miyazaki once said, “an insult to life itself.”

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026

Scripts were packed with bad-boy rebels, spoiled teen queens and uncool misfits of all kinds.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

When Elvis retook the stage in 1969, he hadn’t performed before a live audience in nine years and he’d gotten a little uncool.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

From uncool to mainstream isn’t so out of the ordinary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026

I thought it was a little uncool for him, but he told me it was a perfectly good backpack and he didn’t care what people might think.

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm