as in downscale
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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.
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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
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
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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
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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
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For those holding excessive stock purchased during recent years of inflated prices, the down-market may present challenges.Mark Littler, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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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
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The supermodel layered three gold necklaces: one plain chain, one a string of medallions that recalls a cowboy belt, and a bigger pendant.Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 2 Jan. 2025
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But Carter never changed his rhetoric, always using plain talk and avoiding fancy words.George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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It was screened in places like Picturehouse that are squarely pitched to bourgeois film consumption.Zac Ntim, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2024
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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
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Much of that growth came among the state’s Latino population, which makes up a large proportion of Democrats’ traditional working-class base.Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
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The novelist, born to immigrant parents, Mary Hanson, from Denmark, and Peter Walker, from the Danish West Indies, had lived in a working-class neighborhood in Chicago.Ethelene Whitmire, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Déclassé.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/d%C3%A9class%C3%A9. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
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