declasse
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It’s declasse and too far from where I live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
So the white Rude Boy lashes out in Eminem's self-described "white trash" anger or embraces, while deprecating, his declasse alpha-maledom.
From Time Magazine Archive
The campaign was aimed mainly at polishing Korea's image among visiting foreigners but also reflected unease among some officials that dog eating was declasse for a world-class country.
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
Today, Americans intuitively associate computers and the internet with the technological frontier and associate manufacturing with déclassé smokestacks of yore.
From Slate ● May 28, 2024
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
When life became too hard for the evicted tenant of a sheep-raising landlord, or for the déclassé journeyman of the town gild, he had little choice save to take to the road.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
