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Recent Examples of Synonyms for déclassé
Adjective
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But by the mid-2000s, they were reduced to playing downscale gigs like state fairs.—
Todd Longwell,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025 -
Visually, the queen of this rodeo is Dianne Graebner’s costume design, from day in and day out downscale dress for home and office wear to an unexpected range of intentionally tacky ancient Egyptian garb and, appropriately, enough sequinning to make the concert sequence cowgirl togs sparkle.—
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Another down-market strategy is tax-loss harvesting.—
Letitia Berbaum,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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Microsoft is introducing a pair of new Surface devices today, both aimed slightly down-market from the 11th-generation Surface Pro tablet and 7th-generation Surface Laptop that the company released last spring.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
6 May 2025
Adjective
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Excluding plain water, there’s no other drink that enjoys such a breadth of uses.—
Kate Bernot,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
29 Oct. 2025
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The couple appeared to be wearing matching plain white t-shirts.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Cultured, cosmopolitan, generally liberal, the Dohnányis and the Bonhoeffers represented the best of the German-speaking bourgeois tradition.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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By then, the preeminent fashion genius of the third quarter of the 20th century and the designer so often credited with inventing the modern woman’s wardrobe had handed prêt-à-porter over to his assistants, who clung as if by commandment to the house dogma of bourgeois Parisian elegance.—
Rob Haskell,
Vogue,
20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The picture opens as Bruce is riding high, perhaps a little too high for a working-class Freehold, New Jersey kid who bought his first guitar after seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
24 Oct. 2025
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Raised in Blackpool, England, after his adoption into a working-class family, Ball grew up a budding artist with a penchant for the Northern soul craze then sweeping the north of England, obsessively collecting Tamla and Stax singles.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Déclassé.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/d%C3%A9class%C3%A9. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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