déclassé
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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
This general variety of business has often been viewed as déclassé, the province of fast-talking hustlers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
A cut once deemed déclassé is now at the forefront of chicness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
There was something broadly déclassé about this man which, even to one of her homogeneous nature, became a reproach.
From The Rustle of Silk by Cosmo Hamilton
It’s declasse and too far from where I live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
The only faintly promising news concerns writing courses, once considered dreary and even declasse assignments.
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
Magazines are piled in a corner, and a window offers a distinctly declasse view of the parking lot.
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
