declasse
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It’s declasse and too far from where I live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
One resuit: some world-traveling Cartier customers came to regard the New York store as shamefully declasse.
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
The only faintly promising news concerns writing courses, once considered dreary and even declasse assignments.
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 Percival Lowell
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
She’s a remnant of a déclassé life that Simone wants to leave behind.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025
As prevalent as garlic is in American cooking today, for much of the 20th century it was considered an exotic, even déclassé, ingredient.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2022
A cut once deemed déclassé is now at the forefront of chicness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
There was a very hard-boiled egg, a box of sardines, a dish of terribly déclassé potatoes, and a cup of tea.
From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley
