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Degage

adjective
1.
Free and relaxed in manner.
2.
Showing lack of emotional involvement.  Synonyms: detached, uninvolved.  "She may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive" , "An uninvolved bystander"





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"Degage" Quotes from Famous Books



... aujourd'hui a le calme qui appartient a la terre, support impassible de l'homme, et il resemble a toutes les plaines. La nuit pourtant une espece de brume visionnaire s'en degage, et si quelque voyageur s'y promene, s'il regarde, s'il ecoute, s'il reve comme Virgile dans les funestes plaines de Philippes, l'hallucination de la catastrophe le saisit. L'effrayant 18 juin revit; la fausse colline-monument s'efface, ce lion quelconque se dissipe, ...
— Ponkapog Papers • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... appareil "Qui du respect nous degage, "Les feux ardens du Soleil "Savent percer le nuage: "Le prisonnier de Paris "Est toujours le ...
— A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, • An English Lady
... acquainted with Lord Talboys?" Leader asks, with a degage air. "I shall have much pleasure in introducing you to him. Talboys, let me introduce you to Lady Kicklebury. Sir Thomas Kicklebury was not at Christchurch in your time; but you have heard of him, I dare say. Your son has left ...
— The Christmas Books • William Makepeace Thackeray
... him to Wordsworth. The passing of time between them is strange enough, but the passing of Pope, Prior, and Gray—of the world, the world, whether reasonable or flippant or rhetorical—is more strange. Vaughan's phrase and diction seem to carry the light. Il vous semble que cette femme degage de la lumiere en marchant? Vous l'aimez! says Marius in Les Miserables (I quote from memory), and it seems to be by a sense of light that we know the muse we are ...
— Flower of the Mind • Alice Meynell
... d'un air degage, elle est bonne pour une chose a mon avis, elle peut battre en sautant toute grenouille ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


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