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
The same sleek "gentry" have taken apartments and houses in once declasse areas, displacing poor and working-class Bostonians.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even peddling products on the home screen is not as declasse as it once was.
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 Lowell, Percival
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
How a cut once deemed déclassé is now at the forefront of chicness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
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
And if it is so déclassé, why does every brand, even the fanciest among them, have a salted version?
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2021
Oxford Street was like a once smart woman who had become déclassé.
From The Rustle of Silk by Hamilton, Cosmo
