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declasse

[day-kla-say, -klah-, day-klah-say] / ˌdeɪ klæˈseɪ, -klɑ-, deɪ klɑˈseɪ /


déclassé


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It’s declasse and too far from where I live.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024

The only faintly promising news concerns writing courses, once considered dreary and even declasse assignments.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

In Cheever's suburbias, trying to live up to Leander's morality usually results in grotesquely declasse behavior.

From Time Magazine Archive

To be unread in Polynesiana is to be intellectually declasse….

From The Cruise of the Kawa by George S. (George Shepard) Chappell

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

And if it is so déclassé, why does every brand, even the fanciest among them, have a salted version?

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2021

These three are all of the best families, and their relations stick to them in the background, so they are not altogether déclassé.

From Man and Maid by Elinor Glyn


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