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
Magazines are piled in a corner, and a window offers a distinctly declasse view of the parking lot.
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
The woman in business was such a novelty that as yet she was declasse.
From The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
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
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
This general variety of business has often been viewed as déclassé, the province of fast-talking hustlers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
There is Lady Berenice Coningsby, a bit déclassé; Ethelyn Roydon, more so; Princess Lona Bardai, "Little Lotus-Blossom," sweet and pathetic; Mrs. Dalrymple, the woman of mystery; Miss Vandelia Egerton, the spinster owner of Twin Turrets.
From 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands by H. Weston Taylor
