face-savingadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈfeɪsˌseɪ.vɪŋ/us/ˈfeɪsˌseɪ.vɪŋ/done so that other people will continue to respect you:
a face-saving exercise/gesture
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Reputation
- by reputation idiom
- cred
- credibility
- disreputable
- disrepute
- honourable
- infamous
- infamy
- mud
- mud sticks idiom
- name
- notorious
- reputable
- reputation
- repute
- reputed
- smoke
- standing
- there's no smoke without fire idiom
- your name is mud idiom
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