declasse
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It’s declasse and too far from where I live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
Too long has that region's savory fare been dubbed declasse by snobbish restaurateurs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The campaign was aimed mainly at polishing Korea's image among visiting foreigners but also reflected unease among some officials that dog eating was declasse for a world-class country.
From Time Magazine Archive
One resuit: some world-traveling Cartier customers came to regard the New York store as shamefully declasse.
From Time Magazine Archive
The woman in business was such a novelty that as yet she was declasse.
From The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
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
They gossiped with Una about the husbands of the déclassé women—men suspected to be itinerant quack doctors, sellers of dubious mining or motor stock, or even crooks and gamblers.
From The Job An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis
