Definition of naff
British, informal
: lacking in style or good taste : vulgar and unfashionable
I was going to get a pair of leather jeans as well, but it was too expensive and anyway, leather pants look naff, as I discovered later.— Melvin Burgess, Smack, 1996 … the terrifying door girl Scarlett sat guard and held up a hand mirror to anyone she considered too naff to enter, with the withering line “Would you let yourself in?”— Hamish Bowles, Vogue, November 2012
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The first known use of naff was in 1966
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