déclassé
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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
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
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
It’s declasse and too far from where I live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
Dean's mother-in-law has Jeannie's old 1961 Continental, which became declasse in Hollywood when pressagents began driving them.
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
The only faintly promising news concerns writing courses, once considered dreary and even declasse assignments.
From Time Magazine Archive
She has been declasse ever since her first divorce.
From His Own People by Booth Tarkington
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