de trop

In solitude it is the pleasantest companion possible, and in company never de trop.

I was to live at the Legation, there being no Ambassadorial women folks to make the staff de trop.

He is utterly insignificant, rebuked, and humiliated,--even as a brainless beauty finds herself de trop in a circle of wits.

A whole summer spent in this listless manner does not seem de trop in a refined education.

With anyone else he might have thought it "good cheek" to imagine it possible his wife or he could be de trop in their own house.