de trop

Example Sentences

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When did I become unwanted, or, as the French would say, de trop?

From New York Times

She died last year at the age of 92, and my impatience with her feeling de trop is one of the things I feel most guilty about.

From New York Times

And the Met galas are just de trop.

From New York Times

But to conflate the idea of older woman/younger man relationships with a woman shacking up with her student is just de trop.

From The Guardian

I wonder whether you believe that the death penalty has always and everywhere been de trop, too much, or that something happened to enable us to dispense with it without thereby increasing the murder rate.

From Slate