mot juste
Example Sentences
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Eustache filmed the 1968 and 1979 competitions, if “competition” is the mot juste for a contest whose participants appear to have little say in taking part.
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2024
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
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
They all try to describe James’s distinctive manner of speaking, which was an extremely deliberate, pause-filled, somewhat stammering effort to grasp le mot juste.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 21, 2016
We never find him searching for the mot juste as for a needle in a bottle of hay.
From The Works of Max Beerbohm by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
