declasse
Example Sentences
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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.
She’s a remnant of a déclassé life that Simone wants to leave behind.
From Salon
It’s declasse and too far from where I live.
From Los Angeles Times
Today, Americans intuitively associate computers and the internet with the technological frontier and associate manufacturing with déclassé smokestacks of yore.
From Slate
How a cut once deemed déclassé is now at the forefront of chicness.
From Los Angeles Times
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