declasse

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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

This general variety of business has often been viewed as déclassé, the province of fast-talking hustlers.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2023

A cut once deemed déclassé is now at the forefront of chicness.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2022

Those a little déclassé, on the fringe of society, or the "faster" women like Mrs. Morrell—who might in a way be considered her rivals—were apparently quite unaware of her.

From The Gray Dawn by White, Stewart Edward