Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking assurance, self-control, or sophistication.
- adjective Not in accord with the standards or mores of a specified group.
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- adjective slang not in accord with the current
fashion ,standards ormores of a particular group; notcool
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (spoken slang) unfashionable and boring
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Examples
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And I would say that some of these concepts that you label uncool are actually cool in Japan.
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BEN WIDDICOMBE, CELEBRITY EDITOR, "STYLELIST. COM": Oh, you know I thought it was fantastic television, seeing Angelina Jolie sitting there with that rigor mortis grin as she watched the woman who called her uncool on the cover of "Vogue" magazine just a few feet away.
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The “slutty flight attendant” line, though certainly uncalled for, seems to me equivalent to the sorts of things that are said about the Clintons and the Kennedys—uncool, that is to say, but roughly commensurate with the price of fame.
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Best line: Matthews says that in college he developed an “intellectual anorexia” common among black men when he saw any display of intellect as “uncool, which is the definition of white.”
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Stamp collectors don't think they are uncool, that is just the general perception.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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Nevertheless, the message is clear - Angelina Jolie is quitting acting because Jennifer Aniston called her uncool this week.
Hecklerspray 2008
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It's because - by calling her uncool earlier this week - Jennifer Aniston managed to get more headlines than Angelina Jolie, and the only thing Angelina Jolie could do to wrestle them back was to say that she might quit acting one day.
Hecklerspray 2008
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Nevertheless, the message is clear - Angelina Jolie is quitting acting because Jennifer Aniston called her uncool this week.
Hecklerspray 2008
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Photo GalleryI don't know about you, but I absolutely plan on shelling out $400+ I don't have on a product that I don't need and is guaranteed to be aesthetically obsolete (aka uncool) this time next year.
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It's because - by calling her uncool earlier this week - Jennifer Aniston managed to get more headlines than Angelina Jolie, and the only thing Angelina Jolie could do to wrestle them back was to say that she might quit acting one day.
Hecklerspray 2008
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