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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

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 the innocent days of 2000, NBC decided the dating show Chains of Love was too declasse for a major network.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even peddling products on the home screen is not as declasse as it once was.

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

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

How a cut once deemed déclassé is now at the forefront of chicness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

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

Cookie in an emerald green moirette petticoat and a somewhat déclassé bedjacket, a tight knot of hair playing bob-cherry with her kindly right blue eye, and a rolling-pin clutched truculently in her red right hand.

From Leonie of the Jungle by Joan Conquest


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