déclassé
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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
And if it is so déclassé, why does every brand, even the fanciest among them, have a salted version?
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2021
There was something broadly déclassé about this man which, even to one of her homogeneous nature, became a reproach.
From The Rustle of Silk by Cosmo Hamilton
It’s declasse and too far from where I live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
He'll be dropping the declasse Geraldo Rivera Show to concentrate on gigs like his appearances as "legal commentator" on Today and four new prime-time specials focusing on the law.
From Time Magazine Archive
The same sleek "gentry" have taken apartments and houses in once declasse areas, displacing poor and working-class Bostonians.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the innocent days of 2000, NBC decided the dating show Chains of Love was too declasse for a major network.
From Time Magazine Archive
She has been declasse ever since her first divorce.
From His Own People by Booth Tarkington
