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Definition of mot juste in English: mot justenounPlural mots justes mo ʒystməʊ ˈʒuːstˌmoʊ ˈʒust the mot justeThe exact, appropriate word. that's the mot juste, I think Example sentencesExamples - I explained, sternly, that this was not a word we called one another - all the while thinking what a hypocrite I was, since it was a perfectly useful word, and the world is full of idiots; why not give her le mot juste?
- But all this striving for the mot juste only made it harder for me to write continuous prose.
- The mot juste for me was often a very descriptive word which often forced me to turn to a part of the language that was a bit high octane.
- He's the kind of guy who always has the mot juste on the tip of his tongue and the wit to know when to say it, and when not to.
- But the final two lines deliver a mot juste that is as richly compelling as it is disturbing.
- It gives one pause for thought that Harold Wilson settled for his book being titled ‘The Governance of Britain’, simply because he could not think of le mot juste.
- And surely there will be a special hockey moment that some announcer will capture with les mots justes.
- I've admired Bill, but never until today have I suspected him of writing with the poetic depth of the mature Joyce, and while that is a bit hyperbolic, he does grab the mot juste by the throat at times.
- If any historian has taken to heart Gustave Flaubert's mandate to find le mot juste in his descriptive efforts, it is the babyfaced, articulate Burns.
- Ridenour tipped his head back slightly, like a wine connoisseur searching for the mot juste.
- He ran an amiable trade in insights and mots justes, which he would oblige you to exchange, whether you were up to it or not.
- We fumed and fussed; we argued about the best reference to illustrate a point and about le mot juste to describe the significance of our proposed work.
- He is keen to emphasize that there was nothing neurotic or unhealthy in the French writer's search for the mot juste.
- ‘Having been at sea for many weeks, the participants,’ he says, searching for the mot juste, ‘had a look of lust in their eyes.’
- I have ransacked my thesaurus for a word that does justice to the terrible events that made up what history will know for ever as The Battle of Old Trafford, and I have come up with the mot juste.
- I think there are many instances where a ‘crude’ word or phrase is the mot juste.
- But if they actually were implicated in the one morally appalling drama of having attempted to wipe out an entire people, ‘sorry’ isn't quite the mot juste.
- But according to the many people who rang and wrote in, these were very far from the mots justes.
- He failed to see that, although he and the French writer were both seeking le mot juste, their aims were completely different.
- I am frankly astonished nobody has thrown those mots justes my way before now.
Rhymes boost, langouste, Proust, roost, self-induced, used Definition of mot juste in US English: mot justenounˌmō ˈZHo͞ostˌmoʊ ˈʒust The exact, appropriate word. that's the mot juste, I think Example sentencesExamples - If any historian has taken to heart Gustave Flaubert's mandate to find le mot juste in his descriptive efforts, it is the babyfaced, articulate Burns.
- He ran an amiable trade in insights and mots justes, which he would oblige you to exchange, whether you were up to it or not.
- He is keen to emphasize that there was nothing neurotic or unhealthy in the French writer's search for the mot juste.
- But according to the many people who rang and wrote in, these were very far from the mots justes.
- ‘Having been at sea for many weeks, the participants,’ he says, searching for the mot juste, ‘had a look of lust in their eyes.’
- The mot juste for me was often a very descriptive word which often forced me to turn to a part of the language that was a bit high octane.
- I think there are many instances where a ‘crude’ word or phrase is the mot juste.
- I am frankly astonished nobody has thrown those mots justes my way before now.
- I've admired Bill, but never until today have I suspected him of writing with the poetic depth of the mature Joyce, and while that is a bit hyperbolic, he does grab the mot juste by the throat at times.
- He's the kind of guy who always has the mot juste on the tip of his tongue and the wit to know when to say it, and when not to.
- But the final two lines deliver a mot juste that is as richly compelling as it is disturbing.
- It gives one pause for thought that Harold Wilson settled for his book being titled ‘The Governance of Britain’, simply because he could not think of le mot juste.
- I have ransacked my thesaurus for a word that does justice to the terrible events that made up what history will know for ever as The Battle of Old Trafford, and I have come up with the mot juste.
- But all this striving for the mot juste only made it harder for me to write continuous prose.
- I explained, sternly, that this was not a word we called one another - all the while thinking what a hypocrite I was, since it was a perfectly useful word, and the world is full of idiots; why not give her le mot juste?
- He failed to see that, although he and the French writer were both seeking le mot juste, their aims were completely different.
- Ridenour tipped his head back slightly, like a wine connoisseur searching for the mot juste.
- But if they actually were implicated in the one morally appalling drama of having attempted to wipe out an entire people, ‘sorry’ isn't quite the mot juste.
- We fumed and fussed; we argued about the best reference to illustrate a point and about le mot juste to describe the significance of our proposed work.
- And surely there will be a special hockey moment that some announcer will capture with les mots justes.
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