déclassé

Example Sentences

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
  • Adaptive fashion has often meant plain and uninspiring clothing.
    Finbarr Toesland, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Cut out shapes, like fruit or animals, or letters from scrap fabric, and stitch them onto a plain shirt or sweatshirt.
    Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The film’s portrayal of Kafka as a misunderstood genius stymied by bourgeois capitalist priorities is sympathetic but hardly radical, while its engagement with his actual work is limited, give or take some canny quotation in Marek Epstein’s script.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • For a working-class man in the 1950s, seeking psychiatric care meant defying social mores.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Sunny, for example, feels solidarity with his working-class immigrant neighbors in Queens while repressing the fact that his family funded his education with black money.
    Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 23 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 29 Sep. 2025.

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