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Definition of Déclassé
1. lowered in status [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Déclassé
Literary usage of Déclassé
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Books in General: By Solomon Eagle [pseud.] by John Collings Squire (1920)
"The real William Shakespeare," he says, " was a fast declasse," and he seems to
imagine that this is enough ground for saying that the author of Shakespeare ..."
2. Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of by Robert Michels (1915)
"Thus in Bakunin's view the declasse was not a social outcast, a bankrupt, ...
He is an intentional declasse, and apart from the end which he pursues he must ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"Zoe Aiken, Declasse, ist ed. in novel form. Rhymes and Recollections, Wm. Thorn.
Paper Money Lyrics, Thos. Love Peacock. ..."
4. Popular Science Monthly (1914)
"... and phrenology allied with physiognomy, palmistry or other character-reading
pretences, degenerated to the woeful state of a declasse pseudo-science. ..."
5. The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith (1920)
""When life became too hard for the evicted tenant of a sheep-raising landlord,
or for the declasse journeyman of the town gild, he had little choice save to ..."
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