de trop

Example Sentences

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The Sedgwick children’s grandmother, a Colony Club member so stratospherically snobbish that she found the Social Register vulgar and the Vanderbilts de trop, once bragged that her bare feet had never touched the ground.

From New York Times

People get a little antsy about the subject of cosmetic surgery: they don’t like to be asked if they have had it, and public speculation over whether someone else has had it is generally considered to be de trop.

From The Guardian

Yet referring to this undisputed fact about Bryant’s past, on the day he died, was for some utterly de trop.

From The Guardian

When did I become unwanted, or, as the French would say, de trop?

From New York Times

She died last year at the age of 92, and my impatience with her feeling de trop is one of the things I feel most guilty about.

From New York Times