declasse
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It’s declasse and too far from where I live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
Too long has that region's savory fare been dubbed declasse by snobbish restaurateurs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Snow will be an irreverent presence in a West Wing so formal that button-downs are considered declasse.
From Time Magazine Archive
She has been declasse ever since her first divorce.
From His Own People by Booth Tarkington
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
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
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
