declassed

Example Sentences

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“Pygmalion” is a comedy about a woman who becomes declassed.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2018

That leaves Aaron, who hides his survivor's wit under a deadpan demeanor, to fend for himself in the shabby hotel where the declassed Kurlanders have washed up.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Rexroth's world, people call him "Duke," a term used in hobo jungles for the classy fellow in a sub-society of declassed men.

From Time Magazine Archive

They drew to them "the flotsam, the stragglers living on the fringe of their class . . . the unemployed . . . the declassed of all classes."

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact, it was supposed that among this class of men there were sometimes to be found a Samurai declassed from one cause or another.

From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Suyematsu, Baron Kencho