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
The same sleek "gentry" have taken apartments and houses in once declasse areas, displacing poor and working-class Bostonians.
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
To be unread in Polynesiana is to be intellectually declasse….
From The Cruise of the Kawa by George S. (George Shepard) Chappell
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
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
How a cut once deemed déclassé is now at the forefront of chicness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
This general variety of business has often been viewed as déclassé, the province of fast-talking hustlers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Mr. Schleusner, who was small and vulgar and déclassé and really knew something about business.
From The Job An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis
