déclassé

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Recent Examples of déclassé As prevalent as garlic is in American cooking today, for much of the 20th century it was considered an exotic, even declasse, ingredient. Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Dec. 2022 In China, Pabst beer, which is cheap and declasse stateside, is reformulated as Blue Ribbon 1844 and sells for roughly $50 a bottle. Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for déclassé
Adjective
  • The fast food giant is struggling in its competition with other chains for downscale customers, who continue to be scared away by inflation.
    Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 6 May 2024
  • In 2012, just out of Texas State University, Whitney Miller was peddling cheesy products on The Liquidation Channel, kind of a downscale Home Shopping Network.
    Jim Clash, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • For those holding excessive stock purchased during recent years of inflated prices, the down-market may present challenges.
    Mark Littler, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Already the world's biggest company by revenue, Walmart is nonetheless growing and transcending its previously down-market reputation.
    Nathan Bomey, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Just 1 cup of plain Greek yogurt has about 24 g of protein.
    Julie Marks, Verywell Health, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Hockey jersey: on sale for $15.65 Original price: $16.99 A plain hockey jersey, like this one from Amazon, easily fits over your padding and is great for practice or everyday wear.
    Christopher Murray, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • His cooking was a bridge between an idea of the past, which came from royalty and then became bourgeois cuisine, and modernity.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
  • It was screened in places like Picturehouse that are squarely pitched to bourgeois film consumption.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • By 1988, his share rose to 14.4% as working-class voters warmed to his warnings that immigrants were contributing to unemployment and crime.
    ANIA NUSSBAUM and ANGELINA RASCOUET Bloomberg News (TNS), arkansasonline.com, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The protest involved truckers and other working-class people traveling to the nation's capital of Ottawa to air their concerns peacefully and even joyfully in massive convoys of trucks from every corner of the country.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025

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“Déclassé.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/d%C3%A9class%C3%A9. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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