declasse
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It’s declasse and too far from where I live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
Dean's mother-in-law has Jeannie's old 1961 Continental, which became declasse in Hollywood when pressagents began driving them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Too long has that region's savory fare been dubbed declasse by snobbish restaurateurs.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Cheever's suburbias, trying to live up to Leander's morality usually results in grotesquely declasse behavior.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not that he is no longer a member of society nor unamenable to its general laws, but that he has become a respectable declasse, as it were.
From The Soul of the Far East by Lowell, Percival
By elevating quotidian subject matter to a sublime frenzy of saturated hues, he established color photography as an art form during the 1960s and ’70s, when it had been dismissed as déclassé.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
How a cut once deemed déclassé is now at the forefront of chicness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
This general variety of business has often been viewed as déclassé, the province of fast-talking hustlers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Then again, the reason everyone likes them is because regardless of how loud or déclassé their behavior is, they're deferential and sweet to the family elders.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2021
They gossiped with Una about the husbands of the déclassé women—men suspected to be itinerant quack doctors, sellers of dubious mining or motor stock, or even crooks and gamblers.
From The Job An American Novel by Lewis, Sinclair
