Examples of Faux pas in a sentence. Cathy committed a huge faux pas when she licked the spoon and put it back in the cake batter. Because Frank made a gigantic faux pas at the Christmas party last year, he is not invited to this year’s event. The manager’s faux pas of refusing to serve an interracial couple became a viral video. Faux pas (plural faux pas) An embarrassing or tactless blunder (especially used in social situations and contexts); a misstep. 1906, Chesterton, Charles Dickens, chapter 2 A saint after repentance will forgive himself for a sin; a man about town will never forgive himself for a faux pas.
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faux pas
(fō pä′)n.pl.faux pas(fō päz′)
[French : faux, false + pas, step.]
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faux pas
(ˌfəʊ ˈpɑː; French fo pɑ)n, plfaux pas (ˌfəʊ ˈpɑːz; French fo pɑ)
[C17: from French: false step]
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faux pas
(foʊ ˈpɑ)Faux Pas Pronunciation
n., pl. faux pas (foʊ ˈpɑz)[1670–80; < French: literally, false step]
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faux pas
A French phrase meaning a false step, used to mean any mistake or blunder.
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited
| Noun | 1. | faux pas - a socially awkward or tactless act gaffe, slip, solecism, gaucherie blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, pratfall, bloomer - an embarrassing mistake |
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faux pas
noungaffe, blunder, indiscretion, impropriety, bloomer(Brit. informal), boob(Brit. slang), clanger(informal), solecism, breach of etiquette, gaucherieHe made an embarrassing faux pas.
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faux pas
[ˈfəʊˈpɑː]N → metedurafor (LAm) metida f de pataCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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