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Faux pas   /fɔks pɑz/   Listen
Faux pas

noun
1.
A socially awkward or tactless act.  Synonyms: gaffe, gaucherie, slip, solecism.






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"Faux pas" Quotes from Famous Books



... force rather than elegance; we discuss sports, women, business and a whole group of different emotions, habits and purposes come to the surface, though we were not at all conscious of having repressed them while in the presence of the ladies. A faux pas is where the organizer has "slipped" on his job; lack of tact implies in part a rigid organizing energy, neither ...
— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson



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