declasse
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It’s declasse and too far from where I live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
The same sleek "gentry" have taken apartments and houses in once declasse areas, displacing poor and working-class Bostonians.
From Time Magazine Archive
Magazines are piled in a corner, and a window offers a distinctly declasse view of the parking lot.
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
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
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 ● Aug. 28, 2021
There was something broadly déclassé about this man which, even to one of her homogeneous nature, became a reproach.
From The Rustle of Silk by Cosmo Hamilton
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