declasse
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It’s declasse and too far from where I live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
The only faintly promising news concerns writing courses, once considered dreary and even declasse assignments.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not just for the aristocracy, for whom digital was always declasse.
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
Not that he is no longer a member of society nor unamenable to its general laws, but that he has become a respectable declasse, as it were.
From The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell
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
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
It appeals to the idle, the reckless, the prodigal and the déclassé.
From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various
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