declasse
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It’s declasse and too far from where I live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
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
Too long has that region's savory fare been dubbed declasse by snobbish restaurateurs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even peddling products on the home screen is not as declasse as it once was.
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 Lowell, Percival
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
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
Oxford Street was like a once smart woman who had become déclassé.
From The Rustle of Silk by Hamilton, Cosmo
