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It had surprised me to see them so early, at such an unchic Japanese place uptown.

But just go out on the street and see how unchic is humankind."

A lot of people consider them unchic.

That it insists, in fact, on being most unchic - almost, in today's world, downright provincial.

Maybe it's supposed to be chicly unchic.

But Mr. Bradley is not just unchic: he has made a political art form of being unartfully dressed.

"It's completely unchic," he warns of the kitschy décor.

Forget khaki, which we wore 40 years ago and became so unchic that it was picked up in this generation by Ralph Lauren.

Following his tropism toward the unchic, Barry decided not only to stay with The Herald, but also to move to Florida.

It is decidedly unchic, marvelously quiet, and thus the perfect place to end a first-time journey to Brazil and regroup for the return home.

The backlash against heroin chic was inevitable, given how politically unchic it is to say it's O.K. for models to look like they just shot up.

They were dressed mainly in unchic white, and wore clanking shells and beads and jingling bells.

It now means stodgy, old-fashioned, unchic, a way, for example, of describing, with heavy sarcasm, maroon polyester suits - "Groovy!"

The assiduously unchic sales floor is to a Williams-Sonoma store what an auto body shop is to a Jaguar showroom.

And the bathroom doorknobs were dented, a reminder of the hotel's former incarnation as the comfortable but staunchly unchic Doral Tuscany.

Although the new respect for the farmer may help those who sell directly to consumers and chefs, many other, decidedly unchic farmers are having a lot of trouble surviving.

Both understand that to be chic is to be unchic and that the distinction between boring and real is one of the hardest things to pull off.

The style of the pieces she presented on Saturday night at the Nikolais/Louis Choreospace was also decidedly unchic, blending a cappella singing with simple dance phrases.

Timothy Leary, self-described "dissonant philosopher and chaos engineer": "The 60's were unstylish, unfashionable, unchic and unelitist.

The opposite of "chic" is unchic: "the then uncrowded, unchic little port of St Tropez".

CALL it quaint, call it cozy, call it unchic, but don't call Sag Harbor a tourist town.

Unchic Neighborhood Mr. Mosley lives with his second wife, Verity, on a residential crescent a stone's throw from the second-hand clothing bazaars of Camden Town.

The actress lives with her husband in unchic West Hampstead, across from her mother, the actress Philidda Law, and near her sister, who is also an actress.

Weird and Zany Over on unchic West 47th Street, near Eighth Avenue, is the summer's zaniest and most spontaneous restaurant and nightspot, called Trixie's.

Doesn't this suggest that tourists are simply getting better at going places, and that it's time to dispense with the stereotype that tourists are uncouth, unchic, and generally unbearable?