declasse
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It’s declasse and too far from where I live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
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
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
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
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
How a cut once deemed déclassé is now at the forefront of chicness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
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
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
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
