déclassé

American  

[dey-kla-sey, -klah-, dey-klah-sey] / ˌdeɪ klæˈseɪ, -klɑ-, deɪ klɑˈseɪ /

adjective

1. reduced to or having low or lower status.

   a once-chic restaurant that had become completely déclassé.

2. reduced or belonging to a lower or low social class, position, or rank.

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déclassé British  

/ deklɑse /

adjective

1. Also (feminine): déclassée.  having lost social standing or status

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Etymology

Origin of déclassé

1885–1890; < French, past participle of déclasser. See de-, class

Example Sentences

By elevating quotidian subject matter to a sublime frenzy of saturated hues, he established color photography as an art form during the 1960s and ’70s, when it had been dismissed as déclassé.

From The Wall Street Journal

She’s a remnant of a déclassé life that Simone wants to leave behind.

From Salon

It’s declasse and too far from where I live.

From Los Angeles Times

Today, Americans intuitively associate computers and the internet with the technological frontier and associate manufacturing with déclassé smokestacks of yore.

From Slate

How a cut once deemed déclassé is now at the forefront of chicness.

From Los Angeles Times