declasse

Example Sentences

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Then again, the reason everyone likes them is because regardless of how loud or déclassé their behavior is, they're deferential and sweet to the family elders.

From Salon

And if it is so déclassé, why does every brand, even the fanciest among them, have a salted version?

From Salon

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

Other tenants tended to consider gyms déclassé and parking place hogs, he said, but their reputation as neighbors has improved in the last decade as many fitness centers have turned toward luxury and many traditional department stores have closed their doors.

From Los Angeles Times

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