declasse
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It’s declasse and too far from where I live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
So the white Rude Boy lashes out in Eminem's self-described "white trash" anger or embraces, while deprecating, his declasse alpha-maledom.
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
The woman in business was such a novelty that as yet she was declasse.
From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore
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
She’s a remnant of a déclassé life that Simone wants to leave behind.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025
This general variety of business has often been viewed as déclassé, the province of fast-talking hustlers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
A cut once deemed déclassé is now at the forefront of chicness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
It appeals to the idle, the reckless, the prodigal and the déclassé.
From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various
