bon mot
Example Sentences
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Then, of course, there’s the song’s instantly memed, irresistibly quotable bon mot, “Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby, and I’m a monster on the hill.”
From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2022
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
The bizarre situation elicits Patroclus' zesty bon mot: "What a spring the man has! Nice dive! Think of the oysters he could come up with if he were out at sea …"
From Salon • Nov. 27, 2021
It’s a typical Welles bon mot, blustery and witty and egocentric.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2021
“Add the occasional bon mot and I’m in.”
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
