bon mot
Example Sentences
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I have a bon mot I frequently employ: cautiously poss-imistic.
From Salon • Dec. 26, 2023
Economists would point to the folly of a course of action, and he would pull out a bon mot or caricature them as “the doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022
Keynes’s bon mot has a sting in its tail: We can afford anything we can actually do.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2021
The bon mot attributed to Joseph Kennedy—it’s time to sell when the shoeshine boy starts giving stock tips—seems very quaint, and not just because no one has worn leather dress shoes since last March.
From Slate • Feb. 4, 2021
He jotted down this bon mot with his pencil nub.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
