mot juste

Example Sentences

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So the word is out, and it’s le mot juste.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

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

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

In January, when PhD students jostle for jobs at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association, a “market” might seem the mot juste.

From Economist • Nov. 24, 2016

I decided that "dim" was the mot juste for him.

From Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties by Beerbohm, Max, Sir