bon mot
Example Sentences
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Nericcio is usually quick to a bon mot, but his worrisome tone when we talked was something I had never heard in the 15 years we’ve known each other.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025
I have a bon mot I frequently employ: cautiously poss-imistic.
From Salon • Dec. 26, 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
