declasse

Example Sentences

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In "The Girls Are All So Nice Here," middle-class freshman Ambrosia Wellington is desperate to shed her déclassé habits, convinced she'll belong if she can only perform the same kind of cruelty her popular friend Sully does; in my novel "In My Dreams I Hold a Knife," undergrad Jessica Miller will do anything — take out debt she can't afford, betray her friends, compromise herself in every way — for the academic success she thinks will turn her into somebody.

From Salon

That’s good news not because we want USC to lose basketball games, or because we’re huge fans of Mr. Martin - we don’t have strong feelings one way or another about USC’s third-winningest basketball coach, although we do think it would be declasse to fire someone whose losing season stemmed at least in part to three COVID-19 team pauses and his own two bouts with the disease.

From Washington Times

Posting a wedding registry for public consumption is déclassé in the first place, and posting one on Amazon to profit from it seems downright tacky.

From Slate

And — please don’t tell anyone, I know it’s deeply déclassé — I really prefer a vodka martini, but Vinnie’s “Seaside” gin version has a beautiful, subtle salinity to it without going anywhere near full-dirty.

From Seattle Times

One approach is to bend toward genre, seeking a conspicuous part of the market that remains sufficiently déclassé and chaotic as to leave a wide field for idiosyncrasy among its conventions.

From The New Yorker