de trop

[duh troh]

adjective

1. too much; too many.

2. in the way; not wanted.

de trop

/ də tro /

adjective

1. (postpositive) not wanted; in the way; superfluous

Word History and Origins

Origin of de trop¹

Borrowed into English from French around 1950–55

Word History and Origins

Origin of de trop¹

literally: of too much

Example Sentences

The Sedgwick children’s grandmother, a Colony Club member so stratospherically snobbish that she found the Social Register vulgar and the Vanderbilts de trop, once bragged that her bare feet had never touched the ground.

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People get a little antsy about the subject of cosmetic surgery: they don’t like to be asked if they have had it, and public speculation over whether someone else has had it is generally considered to be de trop.

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Yet referring to this undisputed fact about Bryant’s past, on the day he died, was for some utterly de trop.

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When did I become unwanted, or, as the French would say, de trop?

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She died last year at the age of 92, and my impatience with her feeling de trop is one of the things I feel most guilty about.

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