arriere-pensee
Example Sentences
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But the needy poet may have had some arrière-pensée.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
The latter, at last, answered him, not condescendingly, as Alyosha had feared, but with modesty and reserve, with evident goodwill and apparently without the slightest arrière-pensée.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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)
It may be regarded as highly improbable that she will maintain honourably and with no arrière-pensée the obligations undertaken in the interests of German commerce in Morocco.
From Germany and the Next War by Bernhardi, Friedrich von
As a matter of fact, there was an arrière-pensée underlying his words.
From 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Mitford, Bertram
