mot juste
Example Sentences
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Gainsbourg is bilingual, but French is her first language; she pauses occasionally in our conversation to search around for le mot juste.
From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2019
And as Barnum ended nearly a century of trying to edit that sense of wonder into the mot juste, he finally nailed it at the end.
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2019
I always think that’s a wonderful fault, if it is a fault—constantly looking for not just the mot juste, as it were, but to give a spin on the mot juste.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019
Two years later, “thirst” remains with us as the mot juste for these and other people, moments and things — and the evidence of that thirst has only grown more undeniable.
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2017
It is essentially le mot juste, no other could have filled its place.
From Oscar Wilde by Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell
