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De trop means too much or too many. If something (or someone) is de trop, he/she/it is unwelcome or in the way.
Jessica and David had waited hours to be
alone—couldn’t Ramona tell she was de
trop?
The New York Times used de trop in a 2008 review of 20th Century Ghosts, a collection of short stories compiled by Joe Hill. (The term "neo-Lovecraft" refers to the style of H. P. Lovecraft, an American writer of horror and science fiction. )
The problem with all these neo-Lovecraft jobs, though, is that even when they’re as impressively peculiar as Laird Barron’s, they feel secondhand, pointless, helplessly de trop. (Italics are mine.)
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