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declasse

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dé·clas·sé  (dklä-s)
adj.
1. Lowered in class, rank, or social position.
2. Lacking high station or birth; of inferior social status.

[French, past participle of déclasser, to lower in class : dé-, down (from Latin d-; see de-) + classe, class; see class.]

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Nothing as declasse as a catfight grows out of this, but the tension between the two women becomes palpable and explodes in some very observant -- and therefore especially devastating -- accusations.
Kelly, 68, writes, "The kitchen, a room that had previously been treated not only as private, but somewhat declasse, in most homes now shared the front of the house with the living room.
The Negishiya, a 24-hour honky-tonk, catered to a salad of human types, grifters, hookers, hoods, gangsters, pimps, hustlers, boots, and gobs--the flotsam and jetsam of the postwar wasteland--and the writers, actors and directors come to soak up its declasse atmosphere.
 
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