déclassé

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for déclassé
Adjective
  • 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
  • Could his famous name and deep pockets mobilize the younger and more downscale voters who are unlikely to get jazzed up for a judicial election?
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Another down-market strategy is tax-loss harvesting.
    Letitia Berbaum, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • 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
  • If the debut white-and-navy look was too plain, the sequel was anything but, with vivid colors practically jumping off of the glossy design.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Some are too flashy, while others look too plain to justify the price tag.
    Amina Ayoud, Glamour, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Isabella Cosse writes that Quino was attacked both by the left (for being too bourgeois to offer a real critique of the political repression) and by the right (for being too friendly to subversive groups).
    Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • Domesticity presented an existential challenge to the Communist war on bourgeois weakness and materialism.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • In part, the movie focuses on the connection between the veteran, working-class-style Brewers lineup and the city of Milwaukee, which in the early 1980s was reeling from the recession.
    Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • See You At The Finish Line follows Lucas, a sharp-witted, working-class rower, and George, an American golden-boy captain, whose uneasy alliance evolves into a tender but combustible love story against the backdrop of the famous boat race between Oxford and Cambridge universities.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Déclassé.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/d%C3%A9class%C3%A9. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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