arriere-pensee

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

He said this, as he said so many other things, with a frank and bold directness that made any suspicion of an arrière-pensée almost an impossibility.

From With the Procession by Fuller, Henry Blake

And I watched him tip the waiter without the least arrière-pensée on either side.

From Mr. Justice Raffles by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

But the needy poet may have had some arrière-pensée.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

He possessed a virtue rare among artists, that of gratitude without arrière-pensée.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

He was perfectly frank and manly: he spoke without arrière-pensée, he meant what he said, and was ready to believe that other people meant it too.

From A True Friend A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline