déclassé
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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
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
Then again, the reason everyone likes them is because regardless of how loud or déclassé their behavior is, they're deferential and sweet to the family elders.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2021
Oxford Street was like a once smart woman who had become déclassé.
From The Rustle of Silk by Cosmo Hamilton
It’s declasse and too far from where I live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
He'll be dropping the declasse Geraldo Rivera Show to concentrate on gigs like his appearances as "legal commentator" on Today and four new prime-time specials focusing on the law.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even peddling products on the home screen is not as declasse as it once was.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not just for the aristocracy, for whom digital was always declasse.
From Time Magazine Archive
The woman in business was such a novelty that as yet she was declasse.
From The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
