de trop
Americanadjective
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too much; too many.
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in the way; not wanted.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of de trop
Borrowed into English from French around 1950–55
Example Sentences
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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.
From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2022
Though the book labours under a critical apparatus that might have been thought de trop if the subject had been Wittgenstein, it is not helpful in telling us about, for example, Taylor's father.
From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2012
To talk of a new love might seem a little de trop.
From BBC • Oct. 22, 2012
The orange trees might have been OK, the owner thought, but the live birds were a little de trop.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2012
I’ll offer, and she doubles over, pink-faced, declaring me de trop.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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