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Recent Examples of déclassé
Very few seem to remember, or care, how declasse that phrase was once considered.
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Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2025
As prevalent as garlic is in American cooking today, for much of the 20th century it was considered an exotic, even declasse, ingredient.
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Clay Risen,
BostonGlobe.com,
25 Dec. 2022
In China, Pabst beer, which is cheap and declasse stateside, is reformulated as Blue Ribbon 1844 and sells for roughly $50 a bottle.
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Washington Post,
12 Nov. 2021
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2025
As prevalent as garlic is in American cooking today, for much of the 20th century it was considered an exotic, even declasse, ingredient.
—
Clay Risen,
BostonGlobe.com,
25 Dec. 2022
In China, Pabst beer, which is cheap and declasse stateside, is reformulated as Blue Ribbon 1844 and sells for roughly $50 a bottle.
—
Washington Post,
12 Nov. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for déclassé
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In maybe the funniest scene in the episode, Duncan’s wife Lili has assembled an entire college-enrollment team around Jamie to chart her path to Stanford, which isn’t looking good with a sub-1300 SAT score that isn’t even good enough for such downscale institutions as Duke or Carnegie Mellon.
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Beyond targeting more downscale shoppers, Apple will be able to pitch the computer as an option for corporate and organizational buyers — given its lower price and compatibility with both Mac and iPhone apps.
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As the latter became emblematic of comfort and success, the former came to be seen as down-market or second-class.
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The women rarely have close friends, only rival hostesses and often down-market sisters.
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With head coach Thomas Tuchel also renowned for his plain speaking, many are seeing this approach as a potential factor in England ending their long wait for a follow-up success to their triumph in the competition in 1966.
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For a place of worship the temple was plain, with a long hallway of overlapping purple carpet and idols carved crudely from blush-colored marble.
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In sharp contrast to the first-generation members of the Frankfurt School, Habermas came from a petit-bourgeois, culturally conservative Protestant milieu, his family name going back to sixteenth-century Thuringian cobblers.
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Their attempts to destroy the bourgeois family were, like the efforts of Suzanna’s mother and grandmother, ambivalent and half-hearted.
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Salted and preserved fish and meats, including bacon, sausage, liver pudding and offal, were staples of working-class people's diets, while the upper classes indulged in such luxuries as white flour and sugar.
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Was came from a working-class industrial city, making music reflective of Detroit’s technological upheaval and economic neglect.
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“Déclassé.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/d%C3%A9class%C3%A9. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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