declasse
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It’s declasse and too far from where I live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
In Cheever's suburbias, trying to live up to Leander's morality usually results in grotesquely declasse behavior.
From Time Magazine Archive
So the white Rude Boy lashes out in Eminem's self-described "white trash" anger or embraces, while deprecating, his declasse alpha-maledom.
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
She has been declasse ever since her first divorce.
From His Own People by Tarkington, Booth
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
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
A cut once deemed déclassé is now at the forefront of chicness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
These three are all of the best families, and their relations stick to them in the background, so they are not altogether déclassé.
From Man and Maid by Glyn, Elinor
