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bon mot

[bon moh, bawn moh] / ˈbɒn ˈmoʊ, bɔ̃ ˈmoʊ /


NOUN
epigram
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I have a bon mot I frequently employ: cautiously poss-imistic.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2023

The character never has to search long for a bon mot.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2023

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

“Add the occasional bon mot and I’m in.”

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed