declasse
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It’s declasse and too far from where I live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
Snow will be an irreverent presence in a West Wing so formal that button-downs are considered declasse.
From Time Magazine Archive
The same sleek "gentry" have taken apartments and houses in once declasse areas, displacing poor and working-class Bostonians.
From Time Magazine Archive
The only faintly promising news concerns writing courses, once considered dreary and even declasse assignments.
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
How a cut once deemed déclassé is now at the forefront of chicness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
This general variety of business has often been viewed as déclassé, the province of fast-talking hustlers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
And if it is so déclassé, why does every brand, even the fanciest among them, have a salted version?
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2021
There is Lady Berenice Coningsby, a bit déclassé; Ethelyn Roydon, more so; Princess Lona Bardai, "Little Lotus-Blossom," sweet and pathetic; Mrs. Dalrymple, the woman of mystery; Miss Vandelia Egerton, the spinster owner of Twin Turrets.
From 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands by H. Weston Taylor
